The diary of Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky (18821969) is a unique document covering almost 70 years of the twentieth century. In the first volume, including the records of 1901 1929, the life of the Russian intelligentsia of the first third of the 20th century was reflected. Here the reader will find vivid portraits of M. It's bad, a. Fat, and . Repina, A. Block, B. Mayakowski, E. by A. by A. Coney et al. The second volume of "Diary" K. and . Chukovsky on the tone and nature of the records is sharply different from the first . It reflects the dramatic and tragic events in the life of the society and family of Chukovsky 30-ies - 40-ies of the twentieth century: arrests and deaths of loved ones, bans on publications, war... Despite the inevitable omissions, gaps and torn pages in the diary read the tragic circumstances of the fate of A. by B. Pasternak, A. Fadeev and many others . The most interesting details of the literary and social life of the 50s-60s are contained in the pages of the diary of those years: Kornei Ivanovich supports A. Tvardovsky and the editors of the "New World", B. Pasternak and A. Solzhenitsyn; Chukovsky's signature is under numerous intercessory letters of the 60s.