My life has become fantastic. Diaries of 1901-1921. Book 1. Chukovsky K.

Millions of readers K. I. Chukovsky is known as the author of works for children. He himself said this: “All my other works are so obscured by my children's fairy tales that in the view of many readers I, except“ Moidodyrov ”and“ Mukha-Tsokotuha ”, did not write anything at all.” Chukovsky left an extensive creative heritage, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, work on philology, memoirism, including diaries that Chukovsky led all his life.

The first part of the diaries (1901–1921) captures the literary and artistic atmosphere of the Silver Age. Chukovsky was familiar with many famous contemporaries - Gorky, Korolenko, Repin, Blok, Merezhkovsky, Akhmatova and others. Notes on meetings and conversations with them, about the events of personal and public life are valuable precisely because living, direct impressions and direct impressions are recorded on these pages estimates. Not intended for printing, these diaries turned out to be the most important documentary evidence of the era...