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A Renaissance man - this is how one may describe Andrey Usachev, considering all fields of his 30-year-long artistic activity. Born in 1958 in Moscow, he has been working as a poet, prose writer, playwright, educator, writer of songs, musicals and scripts for both the radio and television, and is now one of the most popular personages in the area of children's culture in Russia.
A turning point for his future career was his fourth year at the Moscow Institute of Electronics, when he decided to change his field of study for the Philological Faculty of Tver State University. In his master's thesis he focused on Daniel Harm's poetry for children. He started his own career writing poetry in 1985. In interviews, he states that it...