Word: marshak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sentence. As the proceedings droned on, telegrams and letters arrived from the poet's prestigious friends -Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Lenin Prizewinning Authors Samuel Marshak, Kornei Chukovsky and many others-protesting the absurdity of the trial. Such public boldness among artists took not only courage but conscience, but their protests were in vain. Brodsky was sentenced to five years of "useful labor." His job: carting manure at a camp near Archangel...