Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769-1844) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 75
He spent his first four decades writing plays and journalism, then switched to fables at 40 and became the sharpest epigrammatist Russia ever produced.
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, We are the Roots of the tree on which you flourish. Go on rejoicing in your beauty!
There are many busy-bodies in the world, always worrying, always rushing back and forth; every one wonders at them.
It is only when our consciences become tangled that the truth begins to hurt.
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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov was born on 13 February 1769 and worked for years as a dramatist and journalist before finding his calling. At 40, he turned to fables - first adapting Aesop and La Fontaine, then writing his own, increasingly original and satirical. Those later pieces made him Russia's best-known fabulist, a writer whose compressed wit still hasn't been matched. He died on 21 November 1844.
