Ivan Krylov

Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) was born in Moscow, the son of an army officer. Entering the civil administration very young as a minor clerk, he launched satirical journals in Saint Petersburg from 1789 onwards, which did not survive the censorship, the first of them lasting only eight months. In 1809, at the age of forty, he published his first collection of fables and went on to write more than two hundred. From 1812 to 1841 he was employed at the Imperial Public Library, where he eventually headed the section of Russian books. He died in Saint Petersburg.

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• PoetrySwan, Pike and CrawfishЛебедь, Щука и РакIvan Krylov · 1816Literature