Agniya Barto was a Soviet children’s poet, screenwriter, and radio presenter. In her youth, she studied at a choreographic school. After graduating, she worked for about a year in a ballet company. At a graduation concert in 1924, Anatoliy Lunacharsky heard her recite her poems and advised Barto to pursue poetry professionally. Her first poems, “Kitaychonok Van Li” (“The Little Chinese Boy Wang Li”) and “Mishka-vorishka” (“Mishka the Little Thief”), were published in 1925. By 1949 an entire collection, “Poems for Children”, had been released. Barto was also active in the film industry. She wrote screenplays for such films as “Podkidysh” (The Foundling), “Slon i verevochka” (The Elephant and the Rope), “10 000 malchikov” (10,000 Boys), and others. From 1964 to 1973, she hosted the program “Finding a Person” on Radio Mayak, helping to reunite families separated by the war. Barto’s texts, for example “Million Postmen” and “Daughter-Bride”, repeatedly served as the basis for theatrical productions. Stage adaptations of her works were regularly included in the repertoires of the Moscow Young Spectator’s Theatre, the Moscow Puppet Theatre, and other theatres. Playbills, sketches, and photographic materials for productions based on her texts, as well as photographs of Barto herself, are held at the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum.