Ivan Krylov (1769 - 1844)

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в) is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.