Chukovsky Roots Ivanovich

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Biography

In 1882, honorary citizen of Odessa Emanuel Solomonovich Levenson became a father. And everything would be fine, but the boy Kolya was born y of his servant, the Ukrainian peasant woman Ekaterina Osipovna Korneychuk. The boy was recorded as Nikolai Korneychukov (derived from his mother's surname Korneychuk).

A few years later, Emanuel Solomonovich, got a wife named Clara and left for Baku, where he opened the First Printing Society. And the boy Kolya and his mother stayed in Odessa.

All his life, the question of his father very tormented Kolya. Later, when he becomes a famous writer named Korney Chukovsky, an elderly dad will find his son. But always very soft and kind Korney Ivanovich, will expel him without leaving a chance for reconciliation.

Artist Ilya Repin (right) and writer Korney Chukovsky on the day of Leo Tolstoy's death in "Penates." Kuokkala, St. Petersburg, 1910. Photograph: Karl Bulla/Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Korney Chukovsky at one time suffered very much because of his well-known "Tarakanishcha," "Barmaleya" and "Moidodyra." Krupskaya herself called the "Stolen Sun" nonsense, and Agnia Barto made a devastating speech about the "bourgeoisie" of his work and even signed a letter from the "group of comrades" branding Chukovsky's bourgeois work.

"A shame and shame to unclean chimney sweepers!" - was regarded as a mockery of the proletarian profession. It got to the point that Chukovsky publicly renounced his work. He promised to improve. He even began to write a certain collection "Merry Collective Farm," but did not improve.

In the sixties, Korney Ivanovich decided to write a children's bible, but this did not cause understanding.

Nevertheless, Chukovsky also contributed to the cause of child psychology. His observations of the speech and thinking of children aged "Two to Five" are still used as examples.

Well, and of course he was a brilliant translator of the writings of Whitman, Kipling, Wilde, Twain, O'Henry.

The writer died at 87 from viral hepatitis on October 28, 1969 in Moscow.

Family

In Chukovsky's poems, the girl Murochka periodically appears. The one who, having regretted all the people, put her shoe in the garden to grow a miracle tree... And on it boots, boots and shoes.

Ha photo the same Murochka and her dad, Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky, aka Nikolai Vasilyevich (sometimes Stepanovich) Korneychukov, aka the failed Nikolai Emanuilovich Levenson.

The writer really had a daughter, Maria. But she died at eleven of bone tuberculosis. No effort helped.

Korney Chukovsky reads his fairy tale to his daughter Murochka. Leningrad, 1926

The writer lost his son Boris in the early days of the war, he went missing.

Daughter Lydia gave Chukovsky a lot of trouble, as she was an open dissident. Her husband was shot at the denunciation. Lydia constantly spoke out against the Soviet regime, quarreled with Sholokhov, openly defended Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky and others.

Son Nikolai - poet, prose writer and translator Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky (1904-1965).