| Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (February 13, 1769 - November 21, 1844) was the most famous Russian fabulist. Some of Krylov's earlier fables are loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, but later fables are his own creation.
Ivan Krylov was born in Moscow, but spent his early years in Orenburg and Tver. His father, a distinguished military officer, died in 1779. Young Krylov was left with no fortune, only to be brought up by the exertions of a heroic mother. In the course of a few years his mother removed to St.Petersburg, in the hope of securing a government pension. There, Krylov obtained a post in the civil service, but he gave it up immediately after his mother's death in 1788. Already in 1783, he had sold to a bookseller a comedy of his own composition, and by this means had procured for himself the works of Moli?re, Racine, Boileau; probably under the influence of these writers, he produced Philomela, which gave him access to the dramatic circle of Knyazhnin. |
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