S. Marshak & V. Lebedev

Samuel Marshak was a poet, talented satirist, and an outstanding translator of English literature. As a children's author, he had a special talent for taking the most indigestible ideas of the Soviet social order and writing about them without sounding pompous or didactic. In his early work, Valdimir Lebedev often combined cubist techniques with the elements of folk 'lubok' in a highly original system of representation. Together, Lebedev and Marshak collaborated on close to fifty titles. Lebedev also successfully illustrated Marshak's adult verse and some of his translations.