—M. : Vagrius, 2009. — 656 s. il. — (My 20th Century). — ISBN 978-5-91187-082-9 . Diary K. and . Chukovsky, his most outspoken and dramatic book, spans nearly seven decades of his life. In them, the tumultuous era of the beginning of the century is replaced by a monstrous phantasmagoria of the twenties and sixties, filled with an endless struggle for the right to be a writer, terrible losses of relatives and friends. Chukovsky was friends or was close to almost all of his prominent contemporaries - Gorky and Leonid Andreev, Korolenko and Kuprin, Repin and Evreinov, Blok and Mayakovsky, Gumilev and Mandelstam, Pasternak and Akhmatova, Zoshchenko and Tynyanov, Tvardovsky and Solzhenitsyn … All of them, as well as many other famous figures of Russian culture, come to life in the pages of his diary - this merciless evidence of the 20th century that has already passed away from us. Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969) figure in the history of Russian culture legendary Excluded from the 5th grade of the Odessa Gymnasium due to “low” origin (his mother was from peasants), he learned early what labor was, stubbornly engaged in self-education and soon became one of the most educated people of his time. The most authoritative critic and literary critic, a magnificent children's poet, a deep memoirist, a brilliant translator, he managed to take his own, exceptional place in Russian literature. At the same time, his life, especially in Soviet times, was full of drama: publishing houses and magazines where he worked, were defeated; his childhood tales of years of persecution, censorship ban; hard to break into the press and his “adult” books. He did not bow to authority and was uncomfortable with it, he defended the right to his independence from it .. And lived a life of inner freedom ..