(1840 – 1895)
He was a student of the Faculty of History and Philology at St. Petersburg University, but he did not finish the course. Literary activity began with poems (a separate edition, St. Petersburg., 1862). Widespread fame he delivered in a sensational manner a great novel “Petersburg Slums”, published in the “Notes of the Fatherland” from 1864 to 1867 (separately 5 editions). The following works by Krestovsky are devoted to the one-sided denunciation of the movement of the sixties, which the author associated with the Polish insurrection. This includes his novels “Panurstvo herd” and “Two Forces” (in the “Russian Messenger”), published in 1875 under the general title “Bloody Poof”. In the “Russian