Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)

Ivan Krylov

Russian writer (1769–1844)

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of 40. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La…