original title and text restored. In 1966, she wrote and distributed an open letter to Mikhail Sholokhov, the communist party's favourite writer, in response to his attack on the imprisoned writers, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, reminding him that "The greatest of our poets, Alexander Pushkin, said with pride 'I have called for mercy to the fallen'." In September 1973, unable to publish in the Soviet Union, Chukovskaya sent a letter abroad deploring the officially sponsored campaigns against Boris Pasternak in 1958, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969, and the physicist Andrei Sakharov in 1973, and "professional stool pigeons" who supported them. In retaliation, the bureau of the Children's Literature section of the Moscow Writers' Union, to which she belonged, proposed that she be expelled. On 9 January 1974, she was summoned before the board of the Moscow writers' union, where guards prevented any of her friends of her supporters from attending, and was formally expelled from the union, which ensured that she would be allowed to publish anything again. Although the KGB monitored her closely, it is thought that the Soviet state refrained from meting out harsher punishment, because of her reputation in the West but also because of her father's indisputable stature in Soviet culture. Her relationship with Akhmatova was the subject of two more books. Throughout her life, Chukovskaya also wrote poems of an intensely personal nature, touching upon her life, her lost husband, and the tragedy of her people. In her old age, she shared her time between Moscow and her father's dacha in Peredelkino, a village that was the home to many writers including Boris Pasternak. She died in Peredelkino in February 1996. Sofia Petrovna became legally available for Soviet readers only in February 1988 when it was published in the magazine Neva. This publication made possible publications of the other Lydia Chukovskaya's works as Chukovskaya explicitly forbade any publications of her fiction in the Soviet Union before an official publication of Sofia Petrovna. See also Mask of Sorrow Translated works The Deserted House Translated by Aline B. Werth. (1967) Going Under Translated by Peter M. Weston. (1972) To The Memory of Childhood Translated by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1988) Sofia Petrovna Translated by Aline B. Werth; emended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1994) The Akhmatova Journals Translated by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova; poetry translated by Peter Norman. (1994) Awards 1990, the first recipient of the Andrei Sakharov