Memories of Nikolai and Marina Chukovsky

Who was lucky in childhood to see Mayakovsky, which was pushing along the Gulf of Finland and composing a “cloud in your pants”? And almost daily to see Repin? Is it easy to meet with Blok, Gorky, Leonid Andreev, other famous contemporaries? But the son of Korney Chukovsky was lucky. “Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky (1904–1965) wrote his memoirs at sunset of life without looking at self -censorship, realizing that it would hardly be possible to publish them: they were too frank in times that did not have frankness. In this publication, brilliant portraits of V. Mayakovsky, A. Blok, V. Khodasevich, N. Gumilyov, M. Voloshin, O. Mandelstam, K. Vaginov, N. Zabolotsky, Yu. Tynyanov, B. Livshits, D. Harms, N. For the first time, the head of the “Siege” dedicated to the Leningrad blockade is also published. For the first time the published memoirs of Marina Nikolaevna Chukovskaya (1905–1993) organically complement her husband’s memories: they are dedicated to the Chukovsky family, the circle of common friends and what the husband did not have time to write about. "The application also first presents the preserved letters of the friends of N.K. Chukovsky - V. Khodasevich, L. Lunts, V. Stenich, K. Vaginov, I. Kataev, Yu. Berzin, E. Schwartz, - giving the memoirs of the Party of Chukovsky Particular reliability.