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Which 19th-century fabulist, a librarian at the Imperial Public Library, wrote over 200 satirical verse fables, many of which became proverbial in everyday speech?
Answer: Ivan Krylov — Ivan Krylov's fables, such as 'The Dragonfly and the Ant' and 'The Swan, the Pike, and the Crawfish', adapted Aesop and La Fontaine into idiomatic verse and are still memorised by schoolchildren.
- A Alexander Griboyedov
- B Ivan Krylov ✓
- C Vasily Zhukovsky
- D Konstantin Batyushkov
Ivan Krylov's fables, such as 'The Dragonfly and the Ant' and 'The Swan, the Pike, and the Crawfish', adapted Aesop and La Fontaine into idiomatic verse and are still memorised by schoolchildren.