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Author Description Raisa Adamovna Kudasheva (Russian: Раиса Адамовна Кудашева) - Russian Soviet poet and writer. The author of the words of the popular children's New Year's song " A Christmas tree was born in the forest ."<br /><br />She was born into a noble family of descendants of the Lithuanian princely family of the Gedroyts. Father - Adam Gedroyts, an official of the Moscow Post Office, who rose to the rank of court counselor.<br /><br />She graduated from the women's gymnasium M.B. Pussel. According to loved ones, she had a pedagogical gift. She worked as a teacher, and during the Soviet era she worked as a librarian for several decades.<br /><br />She wrote poetry since childhood. The first work appeared in print in 1896 (the poem "Brook" in the magazine "Baby"). Since then, Kudasheva's poems and children's tales began to appear on the pages of many children's magazines, such as "Baby", "Firefly", "Snowdrop", "Sun" under the pseudonyms "A. E "," A. Er "," R. TO.". “I didn’t want to be famous, but I couldn’t not write,” she later said. In 1899, the magazine "Russian Thought" published Kudasheva's story "Leri", which remained her only work for adults. The story tells about the adolescence and youth of a girl from a noble family, her first great love for a brilliant officer.<br /><br />She was buried in Moscow at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery - the second quarter of the 11th section

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