Item Summary

Poem about a young boy who does not want to wash. He gets so filthy that all his toys, clothes and other possessions run away and desert him. A giant anthropomorphic washstand named "Moidodyr" appears. (Most common interpretation/translation of Moidodyr is "Wash 'em clean.") The "Chief of all Washstands," Moidodyr summons washstands, soap bars, and body scrubbers (loofahs), and commands them to clean the boy. The boy flees, and is chased through the streets of Leningrad by a loofah. They bump into a crocodile, the central character in another Chukovsky story (Krokodil), who eats the loofah, and reprimands the boy for being so filthy. The boy goes back home where Moidodyr is waiting, and agrees to take a bath. All of his possessions come flying back to him, and the boy finds he enjoys being clean.

Descriptive Information

Title
Moĭdodyr : kinematograf dli︠a︡ deteĭ / K. Chukovskiĭ ; kartinki I︠U︡. Annenkova.
Call Number
Pams / NR 20 / Cyrillic / Box 24 153425
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcdb78tr117
Publisher
Leningrad ; Moskva : Raduga, 1927.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1927
Extent
23, [1] p. ; ill. ; 28 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Front cover is dated 1926.
Binding Note
Pub. white color-printed pictorial wrappers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hygiene—Juvenile poetry
Illustrated children's books—Soviet Union
Children's literature, Russian
Children—Soviet Union—Juvenile poetry
Humorous poetry, Russian
Children's poetry, Russian

Physical Characteristics

File Count
28

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

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