Kornei Chukovsky was a Russian-Jewish writer who established himself before the Russian Revolution of 1917, and later emerged as important public figure in the Soviet Union.
He was born Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneichukov on March 31, 1882, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father, Emanuel Ben Shlomo Levinson, was an honorary citizen of Odessa. His mother, Yekaterina Osipovna Korneichukova, worked as the housekeeper for Levinson's family. The young Chukovsky grew up virtually without a father, becaus...
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