Bibigon is a mischievous thumb-sized midget boy who lives in Korney Chukovsky's dacha and claims he fell from the Moon and calls himself "Count Bibigon de Lilliput".
[1] Bibigon was the last children's fairy tale of Chukovsky written after a long hiatus caused by the death of tuberculosis of the youngest Chukovsky's daughter Mura (Maria), 11 years old.
[2] Written as a mixture of prose and verse, the tale was first serialized in children's magazine Murzilka during 1945-1946, then the publication was stopped, due to the surge of the Soviet ideological censorship known as Zhdanovshchina.
The newspaper Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union published a scathing overview titled "Serious Flaws of Children's Magazines".
In 1981 a puppet animated film Bibigon [ru] was released.