Chukovsky, Kornei Ivanovich (1882–1969)

Russian critic and poet. The leading authority on the 19th-century Russian poet Nekrasov, he was also an expert on the Russian language, as in, for example, Alive as Life 1963. He was also beloved as ‘Grandpa’ Kornei Chukovsky for his nonsense poems, which owe much to English nursery rhymes and nonsense verse.