U odnoj malen'koj devochki byl kotenok, kotorogo ona vospityvala i uchila govorit'. No kotenok v otvet vse ''myau'' da ''myau''. Vot kakoj glupyj kotenok! Ne khochet spat' na postel'ke, ne khochet est' redisku, ne khochet myt'sya v koryttse. A potom devochka ponyala, chto kotyata ne lyubyat spat' pod odeyalom, ne lyubyat est' redisku i govorit'. Kotyata lyubyat spat', svernuvshis' klubochkom, lyubyat est' smetanu i myaukat'.
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (Russian: Самуил Маршак; 3 November 1887 – 4 June 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature."