1887-1964 RU, Voronezh
Spoken Word and Children's Music
A.k.a. Самуил Яковлевич Маршак
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Samuil Yakovlevich Marchak) Russian: Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; 3 November [O.S. 22 October] 1887 – 4 July 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of William Shakespeare, English poetry (including poems for children), and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature."
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