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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (–) (real name, Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov) is a famous writer of children’s books, publicist, critic, and translator.

He was born in St. Petersburg, out of wedlock to Emmanuil Levinson, and Yekaterina Korneychukova. His parents separated soon after Nikolay’s birth. Nikolay spent his childhood in Odessa. He studied English and French by himself and read Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, Thomas Mayne Reid, Alexander Dumas, Robert Stevenson and Walter Scott in original.

He got his school diploma by correspondence.

In , he started writing articles and feuilletons, interviewing writers who visited Odessa, such as Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin and others for the weekly newspaper Odessa News. Later, he spent two years in London working as a reporter for Odessa News.  

In he settled in St.

Petersburg, working as a literary critic for Scale, a Symbolist magazine on literature, bibliography and criticism.