The famous poet Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his work, literally saturated with love and compassion. His poems were a reflection of his soul and life position. A bright and infinitely kind man – this is how his contemporaries described the poet, who were fortunate enough to know him personally.
Already in adulthood, Samuel Marshak mentioned that his earliest memory was a fire in the courtyard of the house where he lived with his parents. Marshak’s daughter died tragically at the age of one year, when a samovar with boiling water fell over her. Living in Voronezh, the poet was actively involved in assisting the victims of the First World War refugees. The first poems of the young Samuel were published in a Jewish magazine when he was fifteen years old.
Marshak is an honorary citizen of Scotland. This title was given to him by the Scottish government for translations of poems by Robert Burns into Russian. Marshak had very mediocre vision. It is for this reason that he was not drafted into the army when the First World War began. Samuel Marshak organized a youth theater in Voronezh, for which he himself wrote several plays. A man he was rather absent-minded. Once he sent a postcard to his girlfriend, signed in 1930, although it was already 1960.
The Soviet government was loyal to Marshak, despite the fact that he helped such disgraced poetess as Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva. Marshak’s son, Immanuel, became a prominent physicist. Vladimir Pozner, a famous TV presenter, was once the secretary of Samuel Marshak. The Scottish government after the death of the poet sent a heather wreath to his funeral.
