Lydia Tschukowskaja

Lydia Tschukovskaya (1907–1996) was a Russian writer. During the Stalinist terror, she witnessed the arrest and killing of her husband and many of her colleagues. At the same time, she recorded poems by Anna Akhmatova. She drew on her experiences in works including the stories Sofia Petrovna and Going Under (1947). In 1974, she was expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union. Her works could not be published in the Soviet Union until 1988. Tschukovskaya died in Peredelkino.