Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (June 4, 1964) was a Russian writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems of William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Wikipedia
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