Marshak of our childhood

This book lifts the veil of riddles and phenomena left to us by the classic of Russian literature known to us in every Russian family - Samuel Marshak. Despite hundreds of articles about his work, Marshak is still not truly studied and the facts we disclosed - unknown to the majority. The portrait drawings of Ilya Marshak, a talented representative of the famous surname, give uniqueness to the publication.
For the first time, facts are first collected here, like Marshak, according to M. Gorky, the “founder” and, according to A. Fadeev, “the father of new literature for children”, survived, passing in the most dangerous years, like Covenant, over the abyss of repression. About how M. Gorky saved him from the attacks, and then he saved from persecution and did not retreat from his beliefs, from people close in spirit - neither from Zoshchenko, nor from Akhmatova, nor from Harms, nor from Joseph Brodsky (already Shortly before his departure in 1964) ... Phenomenal, that the new "large literature for small ones created in the 20-50s, and today remains beloved children, in demand and relevant