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Ivan Krylov

1769 - 1844

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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (; Russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в; 13 February 1769 – 21 November 1844) 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 Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often with a satirical bent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Krylov is the 576th most popular writer (up from 710th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Russia (up from 238th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Russian Writer.

Ivan Krylov is best known for his fables, which were written in the 18th century.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Krylov ranks 576 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred Jarry, Klaus Ebner, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Napoleon Hill, Alexander Herzen, and Maya Angelou. After him are Imadaddin Nasimi, Washington Irving, Dimitrie Cantemir, Walther von der Vogelweide, John Donne, and Ulrich von Hutten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Ivan Krylov ranks 9. Before him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Georges Cuvier, Michel Ney, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and Jean Lannes. After him are Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Józef Elsner, William Smith, and Thomas Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1844, Ivan Krylov ranks 10. Before him are Joseph Bonaparte, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. After him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, William Beckford, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Flora Tristan, Charles Nodier, and Jernej Kopitar.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Krylov ranks 185 out of 3,761. Before him are Ilya Frank (1908), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Igor Tamm (1895), Anna Netrebko (1971), Andrey Vlasov (1901), and Alexander Herzen (1812). After him are Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), and Marina Tsvetaeva (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Krylov ranks 24. Before him are Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Goncharov (1812), and Alexander Herzen (1812). After him are Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Alexander Blok (1880), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), and Arthur Adamov (1908).

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