See also:

• KRILOFF (or KRuILov), IVAN ANDREEVICH (1768-1844)

KRILOFF (or KRuILov), See also:

• IVAN (JOHN)

IVAN ANDREEVICH (1768-1844)  , the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• NATIONAL

national fabulist of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 14th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1768, at See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, but his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years were spent at Oren-See also:

• BURG

burg and See also:

• TVER

Tver . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a distinguished military officer, died in 1779; and See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• KRILOFF (or KRuILov), IVAN ANDREEVICH (1768-1844)

Kriloff was See also:

• LEFT

left with no richer patrimony than a See also:

• CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest of old books, to be brought up by the exertions of a heroic See also:

• MOTHER

mother . In the course of a few years his mother removed to St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, in the See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope of securing a See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension; and there Kriloff obtained a See also:

• POST

post in the See also:

• CIVIL

civil service, but he gave it up immediately after his mother's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1788 . Already in 1783 he had sold to a bookseller a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy of his own See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition, and by this means had procured for himself the See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• MOLIERE (1622-1673)

Moliere, See also:

• RACINE
• RACINE, JEAN (1639-1699)
• RACINE, LOUIS (1692-1763)

Racine, Boileau; and now, probably under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of. these writers, he produced Philomela and See also:

• CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra, which gave him See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to the dramatic circle of Knyazhin . Several attempts he made to start a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• MAGAZINE

magazine met with little success; but, together with his plays, they served to make the author known in society . For about four years (1797–1801) Kriloff lived at the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country seats of See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• SERGIUS, ST

Sergius Galitzin, and when the prince was appointed military See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of See also:

• LIVONIA, or LIVLAND (Russian, Liflandia)

Livonia he accompanied him as See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official secretary . Of the years which follow his resignation of this post little is known, the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion being that he wandered from See also:

• TOWN

town to town under the influence of a See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion for card-playing . Before See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long he found his See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place as a fabulist, the first collection of his !Fables, 23 in number, appearing in 1809 . From 1812 to 1841 he held a congenial See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment in the Imperial Public Library—first as assistant, and then as See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian books See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department . He died on the 21st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1844 . His statue in the Summer See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden is one of the finest monuments in St Petersburg . Honours were showered upon Kriloff while he yet lived: the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences admitted him a member in 1811, and be-stowed upon him its See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal; in 1838 a great festival was held under imperial See also:

• SANCTION (Lat. sanctia, from sancire, to decree or ordain)

sanction to celebrate the See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

jubilee of his first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as an author; and the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor assigned him a See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand-some pension .

Before his death about 77,000 copies of his Fables had found See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale in Russia; and his See also:

• WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom and See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour had become the common See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the many . He was at once poet and See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

sage . His fables for the most See also:

• PART

part struck See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root in some actual event, and they told at once by their grip and by their beauty . Though he began as a translator and imitator he soon showed himself a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of invention, who found abundant material in the See also:

• LIFE

life of his native See also:

• LAND

land . To the Russian See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear his See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse is of matchless quality; while word and phrase are See also:

• DIRECT

direct, See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and eminently idiomatic, See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and See also:

• CADENCE (through the Fr. from the Lat. cadentia, from cadere, to fall)

cadence vary with the theme . A collected edition of Kriloff's works appeared at St Petersburg, 1844 . Of the numerous See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of his Fables, which have been often translated, may be mentioned that illustrated by Trutovski, 1872 . The author's life has been written in Russian by Pletneff, by Lebanoff and by Grot, Liter. zhizn Kruilova . " Materials " for his life are published in vol. vi. of the Sbornik Statei of the literary department of the Academy of Sciences . W . R . S .

Ralston prefixed an excellent See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch to his See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• PROSE

prose version of the Fables (1868; 2nd ed . 1871) . Another See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, by T . H . See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison, appeared in 1883 .