Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya , May 20, 1824 June 8, 1889, was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and translator. Her married name was Zayonchkovskaya. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky. She later added alias to her pseudonym to avoid being confused with the writer Vsevolod Krestovsky.
Nadezhda was born into a gentry family in the province of Ryazan, where her father held a civil service post until being dismissed due to accusations of embezzlement of government funds. The legal proceedings that followed deprived him of a large sum of money, and forced him to sell off his property. It took him ten years to prove his innocence, while the family sank into poverty. Because of poor health and lack of money, Nadezhda received most of her education at home from private tutors, attending a boarding school only for a short time between the ages of eleven and twelve.
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