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Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (Russian: Самуил Яковлевич Маршак; 3 November [O.S. 22 October] 1887 – 4 July 1964) was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults.
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak. Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964. Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak first came to prominence as a lyric poet and translator of Yiddish and Hebrew texts, thanks to the patronage of critic Vladimir Stasov and writer Maksim Gor’kii.
Samuil Marshak. (1887—1964) Quick Reference. (1887–1964), Russian children's writer and translator, one of the pioneers of Soviet children's literature. Besides being one of the foremost translators of Shakespeare's sonnets into Russian, he translated English nursery ... From: Marshak, Samuil in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales »
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964), the most prolific and popular children’s writer in the USSR, was the elder brother of Il’ia Marshak (1896-1953), who under the pseudonym Mikhail Il’in specialized in presenting complex scientific topics to a young audience.
Translation. (1887–1964), poet and writer. Samuil Marshak’s father, a soapmaker, descended from a family of rabbis. His mother was the daughter of the Vitebsk government rabbi, in whose house Marshak began to study Hebrew at the age of six.
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (Russian: Самуил Маршак; 3 November 1887 – 4 June 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories.
MARSHAK, SAMUEL YAKOVLEVICH (1887–1964), Zionist and Russian poet. Marshak was born in Voronezh. Though his father received a solid religious education, Marshak himself seems to have experienced traditional Judaism only when he lived, as a child, with his observant grandparents in Vitebsk.
