1882. Korney Chukovsky was born
Photo: Chukfamily.ru 135 years ago, March 31, 1882, Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Nikolai Vasilievich Kornechukov), writer, critic, literary critic and translator was born. During the Great Patriotic War, Chukovsky, according to the NKGB agent, said in a friendly circle: "I wish Hitler’s death and the collapse of his delusional ideas with all my heart. With the fall of the Nazi despotism, the world of democracy will face the Soviet despotion.