WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Krylov has received more than 221,712 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Ivan Krylov is the 711th most popular writer (down from 613th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Russia (down from 214th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Izbrannyia sochineniia
1898
Sochinenii︠a︡
1955
Trudoli︠u︡bivyĭ medvedʹ
1938
Krilof and his fables
1869
Krylov's fables
Russian Fables
1926
Basni
Russian Fables, Translations into Armenian, Translations into French
1825

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Krylov ranks 711 out of 7,302. Before him are Max Jacob, Louise Hay, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Agathias, Oliver Sacks, and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. After him are Nonnus, Dalton Trumbo, Veronica Franco, Alain-René Lesage, Milorad Pavić, and Alfred de Vigny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Ivan Krylov ranks 10. Before him are Michel Ney, Georges Cuvier, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean Lannes, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are André-Jacques Garnerin, Thomas Lawrence, Ivan Kotliarevsky, William Smith, Józef Elsner, and Ernst Moritz Arndt. Among people deceased in 1844, Ivan Krylov ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Smith, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Joseph Bonaparte, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. After him are Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Charles Nodier, Flora Tristan, Ching Shih, and Jernej Kopitar.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Krylov ranks 238 out of 3,761. Before him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Ilya Frank (1908), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904). After him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), and Arthur Adamov (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Ivan Krylov ranks 27. Before him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Alexander Herzen (1812), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Ivan Goncharov (1812), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883). After him are Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexander Blok (1880), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), and Viktor Shklovsky (1893).

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