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Korney Chukovsky
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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, invent…
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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.
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2020
This Is Edik
Movie self (found footage)
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1986
Doctor Aybolit
Movie Author
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1985
Miracle-Tree
Movie Book
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1984
Vanya and Crocodile
Movie Writer
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1984
Doctor Aybolit
TV show Author
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1983
From Two to Five
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1982
Confusion
Movie (voice)
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1981
Bibigon
Movie Book
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1978
Stolen Sun
Movie Novel
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1976
Tsocotukha the Fly
Movie Book
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1974
Confusion
Movie Novel
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1974
Fedora's Sorrow
Movie Novel
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1973
Aibolit and Barmaley
Movie Book
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1969
Chukokkala
Movie Self
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1966
Aybolit-66
Movie Novel
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1963
The Monster Cockroach
Movie Novel
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1960
The Boldly Buzzing Fly
Movie Novel
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1954
Wash-'em-Clean
Movie Novel
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1949
Lenora
Movie Story
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1946
A Peacock's Tail
Movie Book
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1944
Telephone
Movie Himself
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1943
The Stolen Sun
Movie Book
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1941
Mukha-Tsokotukha
Movie Short Story
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1939
Wash-’em-Clean
Movie Story
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1939
Limpopo
Movie Writer
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1938
Doctor Aybolit
Movie Book
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1927
Senka the African
Movie Book
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1927
Wash-’em-Clean
Movie Book
