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Korney Chukovsky

Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born March 31, 1882Died October 28, 1969 (87 years)
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

  • Moydodyr - Wash 'til Holes
  • Dr. Aibolit
  • The Big Cockroach
  • Mukha-Tsokotukha - The Clatter Fly
  • Fedora's Grief
  • Dr. Aibolit and the Barmaley Pirate
  • Doktor Aybolit
  • Tsocotukha the Fly
  • Telephone
  • From Two to Five
  • Barmaley the Pirate
  • Moydodyr - Wash 'til Holes
  • Vanya and Crocodile
  • Peacock's Tail
  • Miracle-Tree
  • The Stolen Sun
  • Stolen Sun
  • Bibigon

Korney Chukovsky Filmography

1984
1978
Stolen Sun · as Novel
1974
Fedora's Grief · as Novel
1967
Oh How It Hurts 66 · as Novel
1963
The Big Cockroach · as Novel
1960
1954
1945
Telephone · as Novel
1941

2020
1945
Telephone · as Himself

1983
From Two to Five · as Narrator (voice)

1986
Doctor Aybolit · as Author
1985
Miracle-Tree · as Book
1984
Dr. Aibolit (TV Series) · as Author
1983
From Two to Five · as Story
1981
Bibigon · as Book
1976
1973
1946
Peacock's Tail · as Book
1943
The Stolen Sun · as Book
1939
1938
Doktor Aybolit · as Book

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