Monument of Ivan Krylov

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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's most celebrated fabulist and arguably its most epigrammatic author. As a dramatist and journalist, he initially made his mark, but it wasn't until age 40 that he discovered his true calling. Many of his early fables drew loosely from Aesop's and La Fontaine's works, while later ones were original compositions often infused with satire. In cities like Tver, where Krylov spent much of his childhood, monuments honor individual fables separately from the main statue of the poet. One such example is in Tver's square named after him, erected on the centenary of Krylov's death in 1944. The monument depicts the poet standing, gazing down an alley lined with metal reliefs of the fables mounted on pedestals. A later tribute was installed in Moscow's Patriarch's Ponds district in 1976 by Andrei Drevin, Daniel Mitlyansky, and architect A. Chaltykyan. This seated statue of Krylov is surrounded by twelve stylized reliefs of his fables in nearby walkways.