Tatyana Konstantinovna Makarova (Russian: Татьяна Константиновна Макарова) Russian Soviet children's writer, poetess, storyteller, translator. Daughter of the famous poetess Margarita Aliger and composer Konstantin Dmitrievich Makarov-Rakitin. She was born in 1940 in Moscow. Tatyana's father died at the front when she was not yet a year old. She wrote poetry since childhood. In 1965 she published a fairy tale "Snow Goes to the City". In the early 70s, she wrote two short fairy tales about a little donkey, which became scripts for the famous cartoons "Cherished Dream" and "All the way around." At the request of Korney Chukovsky, who is familiar with her poems, she translated several works by the famous American children's writer Dr. Seuss. All of the author's prosaic creative heritage is made up of fairy tales. Especially noteworthy is the fairy tale “Snow Goes to the City”, where the forest Snow, having assumed the form of a man, goes to the nearest city to “see the world”. A lot of adventures take place in the city with Snow, he gets to know his city brother. In 1974, Tatyana Makarova died at the age of 33 from acute leukemia. A collection of works by Makarova - original and translated - "Secret Little House", came out a few years after her death.