From memories

Readers get acquainted with Chukovsky in childhood, remembering his poems for life, but for many this acquaintance in childhood ends. Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite classic of children"s literature was also a critic, translator, prose writer, linguist, literary critic, memoirist ... Chukovsky-translator gave the Russian reader a whole library of works of English and American literature, Chukovsky-researcher, passionate about the psychology of children"s speech, created the famous book “ From two to five ”, and the Chukovsky-memoir is a magnificent gallery of portraits of his contemporaries: Chekhov, Gorky, Blok, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Zoshchenko ... Chukovsky’s memories-live, bright, unusually interesting-are rightfully considered one of the best samples memoir prose of the twentieth century