Diary, 1901–1969 (Veryu v Svoi Sily)

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 1922 to 1935. This was a time when Chukovsky was at the height of his creative powers, when he achieved truly all-Union fame, and when his children's works enjoyed particular success. But it was also a time of profound loss and hardship: the illness and death of his youngest daughter, the fight against 'Chukovism' that unfolded after N. Krupskaya's devastating article, censorship bans on publishing and speaking, and poverty. In the stifling atmosphere of literary officialdom, the writer was forced to defend his right to creative freedom. The pages of the diaries also feature many of Chukovsky’s outstanding contemporaries, with whom he was well acquainted: Akhmatova, Gorky, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Zoshchenko, Tynyanov, and others.