Samuil Marshak

1887-1964 

Back in the perestroika era, all of Moscow clamored to see Henrietta Yanovskaya’s marvelous Goodbye America, at the Young People’s Theater. The production was supposedly based on “Mister Twister” by Samuil Marshak, but in fact the fairytale show had very little to do with the ideologically-surefooted tale that we all knew from childhood about