K. I. Chukovsky left behind a vast creative legacy, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, works on philology, and memoirs. Of great interest are the diaries he kept throughout his life. This edition contains diaries from 1936 to 1969. These three decades span various periods in the history of the country and in the writer's personal life. War, the death of his youngest son, the hardships of post-war life, the death of his beloved wife, the persecution of poets and writers during the Stalin and post-Stalin eras, creativity under strict political censorship—and international recognition... Chukovsky's diaries trace key events in the lives of many of his outstanding contemporaries—Akhmatova, Zoshchenko, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, and others.