Lidiia Chukovskaia has passed away

[Vitaly A. Chernetsky]

> OMRI DAILY DIGEST
> No. 29, Part I, 9 February 1996
>
> AUTHOR LYDIA CHUKOVSKAYA DIES. Lydia Chukovskaya, who chronicled life
> during the Stalinist terror in her works The Deserted House and Going
> Under, died on 8 February at the age of 88 in Moscow, Russian and
> Western agencies reported the same day. A famous defender of dissident
> literature, Chukovskaya saved some of her friend Anna Akhmatova's poems
> by memorizing them and published an open letter denouncing the 1966 show
> trial and imprisonment of the authors Andrei Sinyavskii and Yulii
> Daniel. She also befriended Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
> and was herself expelled from the USSR Union of Writers in 1974. --
> Laura Belin