Memories of Nikolai and Marina Chukovsky

Who was lucky in childhood to see Mayakovsky disturbing along the Gulf of Finland and writing the "cloud in the pants"? And almost every day to see Repin? And it is easy to meet with the block, Gorky, Leonid Andreev, other famous contemporaries? But the son of Korni Chukovsky - lucky. " Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky (1904-1965) wrote his memories at the sunset of life without regard to the self-censorship, realizing that they were unlikely to be able to publish: too, they were frankly in times that do not have to frankness. In this edition, the brilliant portraits of V. Mayakovsky, A. Bloka, V. Khodasevich, N. Gumileva, M. Voloshina, O. Mandelstam, K. Vaginova, N. Zabolotsky, Yu. Tynyanova, B. Livvitsa, D. Harms, N . Oleinikova, E. Schwartz, V. Sthenich, and others. First published completely, without bills and seizures. First published and dedicated to the Leningrad blockade chapter "in the siege". For the first time published memoirs Marina Nikolaevna Chukovskaya (1905-1993), organically complement the memories of her husband: they are dedicated to the Chukovsky family, a circle of common friends and what a husband did not have time to write about. The application also first represented and miraculously preserved letters of friends N.K. Chukovsky - V. Khodasevich, L. Luunta, V. Stnyach, K. Vagynova, I. Kataeva, Yu. Berzina, E. Schwartz, - G. Chukov"s memories of the couple