It’s not a secret to anyone that Krylov’s biography , a summary of the fables of this great writer have been accompanying us since childhood. Krylov ’s fables are often called fairy tales, and they have always been interesting to a wide audience - not only adults, but also children. Krylov’s short biography for children is also relevant today. In the article we will talk about the main moments of the writer’s life. Krylov, whose brief biography includes several parts: the childhood, adolescence and adult life of the writer, is a famous fabulist.
Childhood
Little Ivan was born on February 13 in 1769 in the city of Moscow. The writer studied as a child, not too hard and went to school haphazardly, his father was mainly engaged in education - instilled in him a love of reading, taught writing and mathematics. When Krylov was 10 years old, he lost his father, because of which the boy had to grow up early. Over the years, Krylov made up for the shortcomings of such an education - he constantly expanded his horizons, learned to play the violin and the Italian language. That was Krylov, whose brief biography is described in the article.
Youth
When the writer was fourteen years old, he moved to the cultural capital - Petersburg, where his mother went
to worry about getting a good pension. After that, he was transferred to serve in the state chamber. Despite his position, in the first place Krylov always remained literary hobbies and visits to theatrical productions. These hobbies remained with him even after his mother passed away at the age of 17, and he began to take care of his younger brother. Such was the adolescence of Ivan Andreevich Krylov, his brief biography, unfortunately, does not reveal all the events of the writer’s life that left an imprint on his work.
Literary life
From 1790 to 1808, Krylov wrote plays for the theater, including the libretto of the satirical opera Coffee House, the tragedy Cleopatra, many of them earned popularity and became widely known, in particular, Fashion Store and Ilya Bogatyr. But gradually Krylov, a brief biography
which is so famous for fables, he stopped writing for the theater and paid much attention to writing fables. And in 1808, more than seventeen fables by Ivan Andreevich were published, among which the most popular among readers, Elephant and Pug. In secular publications, magazines, more and more new
works of Krylov appear
. In 1809, the debut collection of fables was published, which in a short time gained wide popularity and brought fame to the author. Further, collections of his fables begin to appear in large print runs, the total number of which during the writer's life already exceeded 75 thousand copies. During this time, Krylov’s fables were translated into ten languages, and nowadays - already into 50 languages.
Until the end of his life, Krylov, whose brief biography ends with information that he wrote more than two hundred fables, continued to create. Relatives and friends of the writer received the latest edition of fables in 1844, already with a notice of Krylov’s death from pneumonia.