Life of Ivan Krilov, or Dangerous lazybones
(
Serie Former St. Petersburg. Cycle: Russian nobleman in face of history
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This book is devoted to one of the most famous and mysterious Russian writer. He started his literary career with high ideals of the Enlightenment. But after the Great French revolution and other range of bloody wars there happened a real collapse of author's frame of mind. He left literature and disappeared for a decade from social life. But then the author returned with absolutely different perception of the world. The essence of his creativity is tragic and hopeless irony.
