The Frogs Who Desired a King
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The Frogs Who Desired a King is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 44 in the Perry Index. Throughout its history, the story has been given a political application.
An Art Nouveau illustration by Charles Robinson from an 1895 edition
The Frogs Who Desired a King, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology
Le Roi Soliveau
A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum)
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)