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Chukovsky K. Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky at birth-Nikolai Vasilievich Kornechukov, March 19 31, St. Petersburg-October 28, Moscow-a famous Russian poet, publicist, critic, also translator and literary critic, is primarily known for children's fairy tales in verse and prose. The origin of Nikolai Korneychukov was born on March 31. The frequently found date of his birth on April 1 appeared in connection with an error when switching to a new style for 13 days, and not 12, as it should be for the 19th century.

For many years the writer suffered from the fact that he was "illegitimate." His father was Emmanuel Solomonovich Levenson, in whose family the mother of Korney Chukovsky, Poltava peasant, Yekaterina Osipovna Korneychukova, lived in the family. Father left them, and the mother moved to Odessa. There the boy was given to the gymnasium, but in the fifth grade he was expelled due to low origin.

He described these events in the autobiographical story "Silver Coat of Arms." The patronymic of Vasilievich was given to Nikolai on the Kreytnaya Father. Since the beginning of the literary activity of Korneychuk, who has long gravitated by its illegitimacy, as can be seen from his diary of the X, used the pseudonym of the “Chukovsky roots”, to which the fictitious middle name later “Ivanovich” joined.

After the revolution, the combination of “Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky” became his real name, patronymic and surname. Journalistic activity before the revolution from the year Chukovsky begins to write articles in Odessa News. Journalist Vladimir Zeev Zabotinsky, who later became an outstanding political Zionist figure, introduced the Chukovsky literature. Zhabotinsky was also a guarantor of the groom at the wedding of Chukovsky and Maria Borisovna Goldfeld.

Returning to Russia during the revolution of the year, Chukovsky was captured by revolutionary events, he visited the battleship Potemkin, and began to publish the satirical magazine "Signal" in St. Petersburg. Among the authors of the magazine were such famous writers as Kuprin, Fedor Sologub and Taffy. After the fourth issue, he was arrested for "insulting the majesty." Fortunately, Korney Ivanovich, he was protected by the famous lawyer Gruzenberg, who achieved an excuse.

In the year, Korney Ivanovich arrives in the Finnish place of Kuokkala, where he brings close acquaintance with the artist Repin and writer Korolenko. It was Chukovsky who convinced Repin to seriously treat his writings and prepare the book of memoirs “The distant close”. In Kuokkala, Chukovsky lived for about 10 years. From the combination of the words of Chukovsky and Kuokkala, “Chukokkala” was formed by Repin - the name of the manuscript humorous almanac, who Korney Ivanovich led until the last days of his life.

The book became popular, which increased Chukovsky fame in the literary environment. Chukovsky becomes an influential critic, smashes the Boulevard literature of the article about Anastasia Verbitskaya, Lydia Char, “NAT Pinkerton” and others. Sharzh on K. Chukovsky performed by V. Mayakovsky in the year Chukovsky with a delegation of the State Duma again visited England.

In the year, Patterson’s book “With a Jewish detachment in Gallipoli” about the Jewish Legion as part of the British Army edited and with the preface of Chukovsky.

After the revolution, Chukovsky continued to criticize, publishing the two most famous books about the work of contemporaries - “Book of Alexander Blok” “Alexander Blok as a man and a poet” and “Akhmatova and Mayakovsky”. The circumstances of the Soviet era were ungrateful for critical activity, and Chukovsky had to “bury this in the ground” of his talent, which he later regretted.

The literary criticism from the year Chukovsky has settled for many years of work about Nekrasov, his beloved poet. His efforts came out the first Soviet collection of Nekrasov’s poems. Chukovsky finished work on him only in the year, processing a lot of manuscripts and providing texts with scientific comments. In addition to Nekrasov, Chukovsky was engaged in the biography and work of a number of other writers of the 19th century Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Sleptsov, participated in the preparation of the text and editing many publications.

Chukovsky considered Chekhov to be the closest to his spirit by the writer.