Agniya Lvovna Barto,, (April 1 1981), was a Russian poet and children's writer. Agniya was born to the family of a Moscow veterinarian Lev Nikolaevich Volov. She studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry very much and soon started to write her own, trying to imitate Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky. At her graduation ceremony from the ballet school she read her poetry, among the guests was the Minister for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, … Wikipedia
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