Full biography of Krylov

Ivan Andreevich Krylov Flecker and playwright I. Krylov was born on February 13 2 in Krylov resigned and settled in Tver. Soon he became the chairman of the provincial magistrate, where he served the writer’s mother, Maria Alekseevna, forever remained for I. Krylova, the most dear person, he believed that “she was a simple woman without any education, but smartly full of high virtues.” Children's years of the future fabulist took place in Tver.

This period of his life largely determined his future fate and creativity. Krylov did not receive a systematic education, however, in Tver, he learned to read and write. Many times the boy re -read the book left as his father, including a collection of fables of Aesop, who made a huge impression on him. Acquaintance with the family of the rich landowners of the Lviv, who patronized him, allowed Krylov to engage in arithmetic and French, and thanks to the meeting with the street musician - Italian Signor Luigi, he began to understand the Italian language and learned to play the violin.

Magistrate, now the TSAZ Krylov was forced to start service from the age of nine: first as a submanteler in the Kalyazinsky Lower Zemsky Court, then in the Tver magistrate. Experience in the provincial magistrate gave him the opportunity to observe the life of all classes.

Here Krylov learned Russian folk speech, which became for him a source of numerous vivid images. Separate proverbs, sayings and vernacular, according to some researchers, are overheard by the writer on the streets of Tver. The beauty of folk speech helped the boy and Tver grandmother Matrena Ivanovna Krylova, who took an active part in the upbringing of her grandson.

Here, the future writer met a local celebrity-a poet-seminarist F. Modestov, who wrote Odes for all solemn events, both in the city and in the seminary. Under the impression of the seminar speeches, Krylov first tried to compose himself and began to think about becoming a professional writer. The first artistic works of Krylov were poems and a fable, converted by him from Lafontaine.

Unfortunately, these experiments have not reached us. After visiting the play “Melnik, Sorcerer, Drill and Swat”, played in Tver by Moscow actors, the young man decided to try himself in the genre of comic opera. He began work on the opera Coffee pot in the city of the plot was prompted by an article from the capital's magazine “Painter”, in which fortunetellers on coffee grounds were ridiculed, capable of any meanness for money.

The author, in his own words, described his main heroine, Mrs. Novomodova, a recent and cruel serf. The work ended already in St. Petersburg, where Krylov moved along with his mother and brother in the city here he served as a clericalist and provincial secretary in the state ward, worked in a mountain expedition, performed the position of personal secretary and teachers of General General Golitsyn, for more than 30 years he was a librarian in a public library.

In St. Petersburg, his writer's talent developed fully: he tried himself a lot in the dramatic genres of Cleopatra, Philola's tragedy, the comedy “Mad Family”, “Compositioning in the Hall of Hall”, “Proceedings”, “Infanta from Zamora”, “Americans”, “Fashionable Show”, “Lesson to Daughters”, “Ilya-Bogatyry”, “Ilya-Bogatyr”, “ He repeatedly participated in the creation of literary magazines of the educational direction “Post of Spirits”, “Spectator”, “St.

Petersburg Mercury” and others. In St. Petersburg, Ivan Andreevich talked with many famous writers of his time. Pushkin called him a “truly folk poet”, a representative of the folk Russian spirit. According to Krylov, Pushkin recorded the story of his father’s father about the events of the Pugachevsky rebellion and used it in his work on the “history of Pugachev” and “Captain's daughter”, and the modest servant Andrei Prokhorovich embodied in the image of Captain Mironov.

The writer of November 9 was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra G. Before his death, he instructed to send all close friends to all his close friends by a new book of fables, where on a title sheet outlined by a mourning border is printed: “An offering, in memory of Ivan Andreevich, at his request.” The life of the illegitimate daughter of I. Krylov - Alexandra Petrovna Savelyeva, with whose family he lived in recent years is associated with the Tver region.

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