Lydia Chukovskaya
Russian writer and poet
Died when: 88 years 321 days (1066 months)Star Sign: Aries
Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: ??´??? ?????´???? ????´?????, IPA: ['l?id??j? k?r'n?ej?vn? t??'kofsk?j?]; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident.
Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.
The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova.
She was the first recipient, in 1990, of the new Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage.
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