Ivan Andreevich Krylov

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Ivan Andreevich Krylov
Bronze statue of Ivan Krylow in the St. Petersburg Summer Garden by Peter Clodt von Juergensburg

Ivan Krylov ( Russian Иван Андреевич Крылов ., Scientific transliteration Ivan Krylov Andreevič * February 2 jul. / 13. February  1769 greg. In Moscow , † November 9 jul. / 21st November  1844 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) applies as the most important fable poet in Russian literature.

Life

Krylov was the son of an officer. He was a minor civil servant, tutor and librarian in Saint Petersburg.

His literary work was very diverse, he wrote about tragedies, comedies like The Fashion Shop (1806) or A Lesson for the Daughters (1807) as well as comic operas. After 1805 he published almost exclusively only fables. The last edition of 1843 contains a total of 198 copies in nine books. In 1842 an edition of his fables appeared in German.

At the beginning of his literary work, Krylow's fables were rather freely inspired by the works of Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine . This was only the case at the beginning of his career, all later works are his own. Since he wrote in the Russian colloquial language, which the common man could understand, a number of his verses have become proverbs in Russia.

His grave is in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg.

Honors (selection)

  • St. Petersburg Летний сад (Summer Garden), bronze statue of the seated fabulist IA Krylov on a pedestal with bronze images of his mythical animals, erected in 1855
  • St. Petersburg Васильевский остров (Vasilyevsky Island) Memorial plaque on residential building No. 8 at 1-я линия BO
  • St. Petersburg Васильевский остров (Vasilyevsky Island), Гимназия № 24 имени И.А. Крылова (Krylov High School)
  • Вели́кий Но́вгород (Veliky Novgorod), IA Krylow is represented in the Тысячелетие России (National Monument Thousand Years of Russia inaugurated in 1862) in the frieze of the 109 historical figures of Russia.
  • Тверь (Tver), Krylowa Park, bronze statue of the standing fabulist IA Krylow on a stone pedestal erected in 1959
  • Moscow, northwest of the Патриаршие пруды (Patriarch's Ponds), bronze statue of the seated fabulist IA Krylov, erected on a stone pedestal in 1976
  • Тeйково, Фрунзенская улица (Frunzenskaya Ulitsa), stone monument to the seated fabulist IA Krylov
  • Image on Soviet postage stamps 1944 (100th anniversary of death), 1969 (200th birthday)
  • Street names Улица Крыловая (also переулки for alleys or Крыловая аллея) in various Russian cities and states of the former USSR.
  • Libraries in St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl and Omsk are named with имени И.А. Крылова (IA Krylov)

literature

  • Ivan Krylov. In: Reinhard Lauer : History of Russian Literature. From 1700 to the present. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Munich: Beck 2009. pp. 132-137.

Web links

Commons : Ivan Krylov  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivan Krylov's Fables in Eight Books. Translated from the Russian by Ferdinand Torney. With the portrait of the poet. Mitau: Reyher 1842.
personal data
SURNAME Krylov, Ivan Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Крылов, Иван Андреевич (Russian); Krylov, Ivan Andreevič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian fable poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1844
Place of death St. Petersburg