Krylov is an entertaining biography

On his account of fables, most of which has original plots, while the rest go back to the work of Lafontaine and Aesop. Readers from the school bench know his works, but the real life of the author seems ordinary and uninteresting. We decided to dispel this myth and collected 5 interesting facts about Ivan Krylov. This hobby developed not only his physical abilities, it is likely that it was then that he first drew attention to folk life and customs.

He wrote with mistakes and taught the literature “to be strong well, it is better to be smart” by Ivan Krylov’s education to be consistent: he learned to literacy at home, his father was a passionate reading fan of reading, and the French language among the rich neighbors. Until the end of days, he wrote with mistakes and mastered the rest of the sciences already in adulthood.

The writer also knew the Italian language, and also played the violin. Despite the gaps in education and difficulties with spelling, he turned out to be an excellent teacher of literature. However, the future fabulist could not resist the acute satire to the leading playwright of that time, Jacob Princess, and his wife, daughter of Alexander Sumarokov himself.

Krylov brought them out under the names of the rhymocrand and the cockroach in the comedy "Paints". This episode seized Krylov with Princess and closed the first road to drama. He released his first magazine at the age of 20, he was called the "Post of Spirits" and looked like a correspondence of gnomes with a wizard Malikulmolkom. In it, Ivan Andreevich continued his satirical exercises, including Rhymocrand and Tarator.

The magazine lasted from January to August and closed due to a lack of subscribers. A few years later, Krylov created the journal "The Viewer", but later renamed it to the St. Petersburg Mercury. It was a terrible slut “And I will say: for me it is better to drink. After lunch, he had the habit of sleeping at least two hours.

Friends knew this strangeness of the fabulist and always left him a free chair. Moreover, often being in public, Ivan Andreevich still paid very little attention to his appearance, did not like to change his clothes and comb their hair. The joke is known: going to the masquerade, Krylov asked the lady’s friend how to get dressed better to stay unrecognized. The answer was simple and elegant: "And you wash yourself, comb - so no one will recognize you." Books on the topic.