Ivan Andreevich Krylov (1769–1844) is a Russian writer, journalist, fabulist, and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841). He wrote more than 200 fables distinguished by their satirical sharpness and vivid figurative language. In Krylov’s fables, society and human vices were exposed: rudeness, greed, ingratitude, and cunning. N. V. Gogol called Krylov’s fables “a book of the wisdom of the very people.”