31.03. -130-anniversary of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky Is the pseudonym of Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov,  Russian literary critic, language theorist, translator, and author of children's books, often called the first modern Russian writer for children.

He was born  on March 31, 1882 in St. Petersburg. Since early years he was interested in literature/  After completing his education, Chukovsky pursued a career in journalism, writing for an Odessa newspaper from 1901 to 1905, for two of those years as a correspondent in London. He subsequently (1905-08) edited the satiric journal Signal and began, with a book on Leonid Andreyev, a series of memoirs and analyses that would span three generations of Russian literary life. It was also during this period that he began making translations of works by English and American authors, notably Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. 
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