My Life Became Fantastic. Diaries. Book One. 1901-1929

K. I. Chukovsky left a broad creative legacy, including journalism, translations, literary criticism, works on philology, and memoirs. The diaries he kept throughout his life are also of great interest. This edition publishes records from 1901-1929. The beginning of the creative path, artistic searches of the Silver Age, then the revolution and the Civil War, severe losses and trials, all-Union fame — and the struggle with "Chukovshchina"... On the pages of the diaries, many outstanding contemporaries of Chukovsky appear, with whom he was well acquainted — Repin, Blok, Gumilev, Gorky, Korolenko, Akhmatova, Merezhkovsky, and others.