Sofia Petrovna

Sofia Petrovna
AuthorLydia Chukovskaya
TranslatorAline Werth (1988), Olga Kagan & Mara Kashper (2002)
LanguageRussian
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherNorthwestern University Press, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company
Publication date
1965 (Russian), 1967 (English)
Publication placeU.S.S.R.
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages120 pp (1988 edition), 161 pp (2002 edition)
ISBN0-8101-0794-5 (1988 paperback edition)
OCLC18520405

Sofia Petrovna is a novella by Russian author Lydia Chukovskaya, written in the late 1930s in the Soviet Union. It is notable as one of the few surviving accounts of the Great Purge actually written during the purge era.