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Lydia Chukovskaya

Born

in Russian Federation

March 11, 1907

Died

February 08, 1996

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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Lydia Chukovskaya wrote 'Sofia Petrovna', a harrowing story about life during the Great Purges. But it was a while before this story would achieve widespread recognition. Out of favour with the authorities, yet principled and uncompromising, Chukovskaya was unable to hold down any kind of steady employment. But gradually, she started to get published again: an introduction to the works of Taras Shevchenko, another one for the diaries of Miklouho-Maclay.
By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscri ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 3,467 ratings · 408 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, Aline Werth (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 2,861 ratings — published 1965 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going under 4.36 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941 4.38 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1980 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Памяти детства by Lydia Chukovskaya, Лидия Чуковская 4.38 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crónica de un silencio by Lydia Chukovskaya, Marta Rebón (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Прочерк 4.66 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	В лаборатории редактора 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Записки об Анне Ахматовой. В 3 томах. Том 3. 1963-1966 by Lydia Chukovskaya, Лидия Чуковская 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vajoaminen by Lydia Chukovskaya, Kirsti Era (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1972	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Записки об Анне Ахматовой. В 3 томах. Том 2. 1952-1962 by Lydia Chukovskaya, Лидия Чуковская 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Записки об Анне Ахматовой (3 books)
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Лидия Чуковская

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Quotes by Lydia Chukovskaya (?)

“Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else.”
― Lydia Chukovskaya, Sofia Petrovna

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“Пушкин. Тютчев. Некрасов. Блок. Ахматова. Мандельштам… Это всё — псевдонимы. Автор — Петербург.”
― Lydia Chukovskaya, Прочерк

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“Редактору предоставлено одно безукоризненное право: если он убеждён в идейной или художественной неполноценности рукописи - отвергнуть её. Ему принадлежит суровое право отбора. Но права самовольничать в рукописи, принятой к изданию, он лишен начисто.”
― Lydia Chukovskaya, В лаборатории редактора

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Polls

November 2017 Short Story Poll

The Raven and other poems by Edgar Allan Poe, 73 pages, 1800's

70 votes, 24.7%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1952

69 votes, 24.4%

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, 32 pages, 1862

35 votes, 12.4%

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, 31 pages, 1836

30 votes, 10.6%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

23 votes, 8.1%

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 48 pages, 1944

17 votes, 6.0%

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, 96 pages, 1977

16 votes, 5.7%

For Esme - With Love And Squalor Title Story by J.D. Salinger, ? pages, 1953

10 votes, 3.5%

Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, 120 pages, 1965

9 votes, 3.2%

Futility or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson, 96 pages, 1898

4 votes, 1.4%

283 total votes

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