head of the poetry department of the novy mir magazine, researcher at the dahl literary museum, pavel kryuchkov it’s clear that pavel works for us in the museum chukovsky, who is part of the literary museum named after daria, our guest today is not as a famous author, but as a person who personally knew korniy ivanovich, remembers and can tell us some unique things that no one else can tell maybe i would like to start with the fact that there is this classic phrase: a writer in russia must live a long time, which is attributed to the root of ivanovich chukovsky, and my question is: is it true or is it a myth? let's first, a writer in russia should live a long time, you know, in general, probably living a long time is good, if it were not for arthritis, gastritis, colitis and everything else that accompanies age. i never heard this phrase from karnya ivanovich, but we were children. i remember it in such a truncated version, in russia you have to live for a long time, this is how i just said it, some witnesses refer to the years that korney ivanovich said it, and even i saw quotes in the diction