Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend
- Written by Judith Armstrong, Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
A plaque on a house in St Petersburg that says: ‘Here the writer Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya wrote Sophia Petrovna, a story about the Great Terror 1936-1938’.Wikimedia CommonsIn a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages.
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