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Monument to Samuil Marshak to be installed in downtown Moscow

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Monument to Samuil Marshak to be installed in downtown Moscow


03.12.2016

Photo: 7days.ru A monument to Samuil Marshak is to be installed in the historical center of Moscow in honor of the writer’s 130th birthday anniversary, reports RIA «Novosti».

To commemorate the outstanding children’s writer and translator’s jubilee, a special train will be launched by Moscow Metro and public readings of his most famous pieces of literature will be arranged. A special program dedicated to Samuil Marshak will be arranged as part of the Red Square Book Fair.

it is to be recalled that the first monument to the writer was installed in Voronezh, his home town, last year. A bronze sculpture of Samuil Marshak designed and made by Maxim Dikunov was set up in the yard of the apartment building he used to live.

Samuil Marshak was born on 3 November, N.S., in a suburb of Voronezh. Thanks to the help a Russian critic Stasov gave him, Samuil Marshak obtained the possibility to become a student in Saint Petersburg where he met Maxim Gorky. In 1912-1914 he was a student at London University and travelled around Great Britain a lot studying local folklore. In the first place, Samuil Marshak is known in Russia as a children’s writer and a translator of works written by William Shakespeare and Robert Burns into Russian.

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