Writing

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Man

31 Mar 1882

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Korney Chukovsky

Korney I. Chukovsky [Nikolai V. Korneichukov] (31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanishche ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation. He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doktor Aybolit ("Dr. Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki ("English Folk Rhymes"). He was also an influential literary critic and essayist.

From Two to Five

23 April 1983

Telephone

23 March 1944

This Is Edik

25 November 2020

Confusion

1 January 1982

Doctor Aybolit

6 June 1986

Wash-'em-Clean

1 January 1954

Aybolit-66

19 April 1967

Aibolit and Barmaley

1 January 1973

The Monster Cockroach

1 January 1963

The Boldly Buzzing Fly

1 January 1960