{"name": "Ivan Andreevich Krylov", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Russian: \u0418\u0432\u0430\u0301\u043d \u0410\u043d\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0301\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041a\u0440\u044b\u043b\u043e\u0301\u0432) was 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 40. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often with a satirical bent."}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "17224901", "isni": "0000000122769740", "wikidata": "Q191480", "musicbrainz": "56906c77-de8f-4623-ae0a-9fc83c4e6e6d", "lc_naf": "n50048857", "librivox": "8624", "opac_sbn": "SBLV141192"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "13 February 1769", "alternate_names": ["Krylov, Ivan Andreevich, 1768-1844.", "Ivan Andreevich, Krylov", "Krylov Ivan Andreevich"], "death_date": "21 November 1844", "personal_name": "Ivan Andreevich Krylov", "photos": [14339068], "key": "/authors/OL76475A", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T01:52:42.501939"}}