March 11 (24), 1907, St. Petersburg - February 8, 1996, Moscow
A prose writer and poet, memoirist, professional editor and literary critic. Daughter of Kornei Chukovsky. Under the penname Aleksei Uglov, in 1920-1930s Chukovskaia published several books for children. Her novella Sofia Petrovna - the only known work of fiction about the Great Terror - was written in the immediate aftermath of the events. It was first published in Paris under a modified title (The Deserted House, to echo a line from Anna Akhmatova's Requiem) in 1965, and almost simultaneously serialized in New York in Novyi Zhurnal (vols. 83-84). Her second novella Going Under appeared in New York in 1972. Apart from her scholarly works, no other
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March 11 (24), 1907, St. Petersburg - February 8, 1996, Moscow
A prose writer and poet, memoirist, professional editor and literary critic. Daughter of Kornei Chukovsky. Under the penname Aleksei Uglov, in 1920-1930s Chukovskaia published several books for children. Her novella Sofia Petrovna - the only known work of fiction about the Great Terror - was written in the immediate aftermath of the events. It was first published in Paris under a modified title (The Deserted House, to echo a line from Anna Akhmatova's Requiem) in 1965, and almost simultaneously serialized in New York in Novyi Zhurnal (vols. 83-84). Her second novella Going Under appeared in New York in 1972. Apart from her scholarly works, no other writings of Chukovskaia could be published in Russia until Perestroika.
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