About the book: year / “...If we said that Koltsov’s poetry relates to Pushkin’s poetry, like a spring that waters a village relates to the Volga, which waters more than half of Russia. - then Krylov’s poetry, both in an aesthetic and national sense, should relate to Pushkin’s poetry, just as a river, even the largest one, relates to the sea, which receives thousands of rivers, both large and small, into its vast bosom. Pushkin's poetry reflected all of Rus', with all its substantial elements, all the diversity, all the diversity of its national spirit. Krylov expressed - and it must be said, expressed broadly and fully - only one side of the Russian spirit - its common, practical sense, its experienced worldly wisdom, its simple-minded and evil irony…»