Krestovsky Vs. V. (1839-1895), writer

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KRESTOVSKY Vsevolod Vladimirovich (1839-1895), poet, prose writer. In 1850-57 studied in the First Petersburg Gymnasium, in 1857-61 studied at the Faculty of Law of Petersburg University (did not graduate). He made himself a name as a poet (collection Poems, volumes 1-2, 1862). The systematic study of people from the bottom of St. Petersburg led to a series of essays that comprised three books: Petersburg Characters, Petersburg Gold-Miners, Photo Cards of Petersburg Life (all published in St. Petersburg in 1865). In 1864-67 he wrote a social adventure story The Slums of Petersburg that brought Krestovsky wide fame. Experts of St. Petersburg lower classes N.G. Pomyalovsky and well-known police-officer I.D. Putilin provided Krestovsky with information while he was writing the novel. The chapters of the novel that are more like essays (descriptions of doss-houses, dens, prison cells, public houses) are linked with intricately intersecting plot lines. As one of contemporaries of Krestovsky witnessed (F. Berg), readers of the novel formed the group and visited the places depicted by Vsevolod Vladimirovich. Krestovsky is the author of anti-nihilistic novels The Sheep of Panurge (1869) and Two Forces (1874), and many other prosaic works, none of which enjoyed such popularity as The Slums of Petersburg did. In the middle of the 1860s he lived at 21 Bolshaya Morskaya Street. He died in Warsaw, buried at the cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra, in 1955 his ashes were moved to Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Кудрявцева Г. Н. Петербургские трущобы В. В. Крестовского в литературной борьбе 60-х годов: Автореф. дис. ... канд. филол. наук. М., 1977; Викторович В. А. Всеволод Крестовский: легенды и факты // Рус. лит. 1990. № 2. С. 44-58; Отрадин М. В. Роман В. В. Крестовского Петербургские трущобы // Крестовский В. В. Петербургские трущобы: (Кн. о сытых и голодных). Л., 1990. С. 3-24.

M. V. Otradin. Krestovsky Vsevolod Vladimirovich
Pomyalovsky Nikolay Gerasimovich
Putilin I.D.
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Кудрявцева Г. Н. "Петербургские трущобы" В. В. Крестовского в литературной борьбе 60-х годов: Автореф. дис. ... канд. филол. наук. М., 1977
Отрадин М. В. Роман В. В. Крестовского "Петербургские трущобы" // Крестовский В. В. Петербургские трущобы: (Кн. о сытых и голодных). Л., 1990
Викторович В. А. Всеволод Крестовский: легенды и факты // Рус. лит., 1990 Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis