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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.
Marshak’s dynamic, witty poems introduced children to the world of nature and simple things. From the 1920s until the present day, they have remained as beloved popular children’s reading. Nonetheless, in 1937, Marshak’s publishing house was liquidated and many of the writers arrested.
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 »
Dec 14, 2018 · In 1927 Samuil Marshak wrote the poem Pochta to praise the efficiency of modern communications with some droll humor and a little dash of wonder. The plot is brilliant in its simplicity. A little boy writes a letter to the children’s book author Boris Zhitkov, but Postman Number 5 delivers it to his Leningrad apartment after ...
Prominent Russians: Samuil Marshak. November 3, 1887 - June 4, 1964. Marshak was a successful poet, translator, political satirist, state propagandist, magazine editor and author of children's books.
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.
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.
