F.Korney Chukovsky

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky - not only the author of the well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales, but also a distinguished literary critic, translator, active participant and organizer of literary life in Russia for seven decades. Despite the abundance of books dedicated to him, and publications, its multi-faceted nature remains largely a mystery to researchers. Writer and journalist Irina Lukyanova on the basis of multiple sources has created a new, unsurpassed in fullness biography of the writer, typing in his life in the wide panorama of Russian history and literature of the XX century. As submitted by the author Chukovsky is shown not only by the figure of a bygone era, but our interlocutor responding to contemporary issues.