- M. The Young Guard, 1962. Kornei Chukovsky - our favorite children's writer, storyteller, author of Aibolith, Moydodyr and Barmalei - was a true connoisseur of the Russian language. Living as Life is Chukovsky's main book devoted to the Russian language, its history and modern life, the laws of its development. The author’s undisguised and passionate interest in the word as the beginning of all beginnings in combination with an objective scientific analysis of speech is a distinctive feature of Chukovsky’s book, which made it so popular and readable in our country. In the book you will find a huge number of examples of living Russian speech, you will learn what cannery is and how to deal with it, umslopogas and foreign words and much more.