Lydia Chukovsky from her childhood was surrounded by writers and poets who were friends with her father Corny Chukovsky. As a teenager, she helped him with translations, and after he studied at the Institute, she worked as an editor under the guidance of Shmuel Marshak. Although still a student, who learned from personal experience what oppression is, she devoted a significant part of her life and her literary work to preserving the evidence of the Great Terror and supporting the fierce cultural figures, including Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky. Forbes Woman tells about the life of Lydia Chukovsky. Lydia Chukovskaya, Simeiz. 1929 (צילום: Public Domain).

Lydia Chukovsky from her childhood was surrounded by writers and poets who were friends with her father Corny Chukovsky. As a teenager, she helped him with translations, and after he studied at the Institute, she worked as an editor under the guidance of Shmuel Marshak. Although still a student, who learned from personal experience what oppression is, she devoted a significant part of her life and her literary work to preserving the evidence of the Great Terror and supporting the fierce cultural figures, including Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky. Forbes Woman tells about the life of Lydia Chukovsky. Lydia Chukovskaya, Simeiz. 1929 (צילום: Public Domain).