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Mar 11, 1907 Saint Petersburg Died on 07 Feb 1996 (aged 88)
Russian writer and poet
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About Lydia Chukovskaya
- Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: ??´??? ?????´???? ????´?????, IPA: ['l?id??j? k?r'n?ej?vn? t??'kofsk?j?] (listen); 24 March [O.S.
- 11 March] 1907 – February 8, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident.
- Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.
- The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova.
- She was the first recipient in 1990 of the new Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage.
