During this time his wife, Maria Alekseevna, and their five-year-old son, Ivan, lived in Orenburg, which was under siege. After the uprising was suppressed Andrei Krylov left military service, and the family settled in Tver, where he served as chairman of the provincial town council. In 1778 Ivan's father died, leaving nine-year-old Ivan and his year-old brother, Lev, in the care of their mother. She educated Krylov in the basics of reading and writing and acquainted him with the fundamentals of arithmetic.
Krylov's family lived in straitened circumstances. In order to make ends meet, Maria Alekseevna often worked as a servant in rich households. Krylov himself began to work at an early age. Even while his father was still alive he had been assigned to serve in the uyezd court in the town of Koliazin, and later he became a pisets (scribe) for the Tver town council. While serving at these posts Krylov developed a passion for reading, for which he was occasionally punished. Circumstances helped the youth improve his education. At his mother's request Krylov was allowed to attend lessons with the children of the rich landowner N.
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