Krylov's fables have a wide range of themes, which can be roughly divided into two categories. One is to use the image of fierce animals to show the cruelty, greed and cunning of powerful people and expose social abuses. The other kind belongs to moral exhortation in the general sense. Rylov's allegorical poems are concise, vivid and humorous, which can be said to be a household name in Russia.
He used and refined a large number of folk proverbs and sayings, and some of his epigrams became new proverbs and sayings, and some of his epigrams became new proverbs and spread.
The influence of the work
Deeply influenced by Russian original krylov's fable literature, a cultural phenomenon of naming streets and buildings after krylov has formed in Russia: there is a krylov monument in Tver, Russia; Omsk has a children's library named after krylov.
The following Russian cities have streets named after krylov: St. Petersburg, Kazan, Tver, Viseworozhsk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Bo Bruis, Ishimbe, Joshkar-Ola, Saransko, Surgut, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Kachinkarna and Novosibirsk.