Ivan Krylov
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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov 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
Portrait of Krylov by Karl Briullov, 1839
Monument to Ivan Krylov in the Summer Garden (1854–55), by Peter Klodt von Urgensburg
Portrait of Ivan Krylov by Roman Maximovich Volkov (1812)
Ivan Krylov by Peter A. Olenin (ru) (1824)
The Wolf and the Crane
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The Wolf and the Crane is a fable attributed to Aesop that has several eastern analogues. Similar stories have a lion instead of a wolf, and a stork, heron or partridge takes the place of the crane.
Stephan Horota's sculpture of the fable in Berlin's Treptower Park, 1968
Rickshaw art from Bangladesh, featuring a tiger and egret