Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet (died 1964)

Samuil Marshak

Russian writer and poet (1887–1965)

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Soviet writer of Belarusian Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of William Shakespeare, English poetry, and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky…