English: The painter Marc Chagal (front) with teachers and children at the Malakhovka children's colony near Moscow in 1921. Chagal Left Russia shortly after. To the left of Marc Chagall (bottom right) is writer Zvi Girshkan. In the second row from left to right: writer Simha Tomshinsky, Ukrainian Yiddish poet David Gofshtain (aka Hofstein), composer Yoel Engel, and literary critic Yekhezkel Dobrushin. Sitting left behind Chagall is the Yiddish writer Der Nister, one of many who had returned to the Soviet Union to participate in Yiddish cultural life (in 1952 he became a victim of the campaign against "Cosmopolitans").