1907. Lidia Chukovskaya was born

110 years ago, March 24, 1907, Lidia Korneevna Chukovskaya was born - writer, critic, literary critic, memoirist, human rights activist. Back in 1926, she was arrested on charges of compiling an anti -Soviet leaflet and for a year Susclan in Saratov. The story of the Chukovskaya "Sofya Petrovna", completed in 1940, was one of the first artistic descriptions of the era of the Stalinist terror. In the 1960s-1970s, she repeatedly protected Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky and Julia Daniel, Mustafa Dzhemilev and other dissenters.

In 1966, Chukovskaya wrote an open letter to Mikhail Sholokhov, who performed at the XXIII Congress of the CPSU with criticism of the sentence Daniel and Sinyavsky as too soft. She wrote: "Literature itself will avenge yourself, as she takes revenge on everyone who returns from the difficult duty she imposed. She will sentenced you to the highest extent of the punishment for the artist - to creative infertility. And no honors, money, domestic and international prizes will not award this sentence from your head."