For the first time, Lydia Chukovskaya’s autobiographical story “Procherk” is being published as a separate publication. The events of the story take place in the 1920-1930s: Lydia Chukovskaya’s student years, her arrest and exile in Saratov, work in Marshakov’s editorial office of the Leningrad “Detizdat”... Many pages concern personal circumstances. Lydia Chukovskaya's second husband, astrophysicist M. P. Bronstein, was arrested in 1937 and executed in February 1938. As an appendix, the book contains poems that Lydia Chukovskaya dedicated to him.