About the Author

LYDIA CHUKOSKAYA (1907-1996), the daughter of the beloved children's author Kornei Chukovsky, numbered most of the great Russian writers of her day among her friends. She is the author of To the memory of Childhood, also published by Northwestern, and The Akhmatova Journals.

Reviews

"Remarkable and superbly written." --Times Literary Supplement
"Written in the winter of 1939-1940, Sofia Petrovna, like its sister work in verse, Anna Akhmatova's Rekviem (which itself survived for twenty years thanks to Chukovskaia's memory), is one of the few contemporary artistic testaments to those terrible years [of the Great Purge]." --Slavic Review