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Known For

Writing

Known Credits

30

Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-03-31

Day of Death

1969-10-28 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Also Known As

Корней Иванович Чуковский

Николай Васильевич Корнейчуков

Nikolai Korneichukov

К. Чуковский

Korney Chukovskiy

Korney Chukovsky

Biography

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.

Known For

Acting

Confusion

1982

Confusion

as

(voice)

From Two to Five

1983

From Two to Five

as

Narrator (voice)

Telephone

1944

Telephone

as

Himself

This Is Edik

2020

This Is Edik

as

self (found footage)

Production

Crew

Directing