Ivan Kushchevsky
Ivan Afanasyevich Kushchevsky , born December 24, 1847 died August 12, 1876, was a Russian writer.
Kushchevsky was born in Barnaul, Siberia where his father was a minor official. He received his early education at the Tomsk gymnasium. He went to Saint Petersburg in the mid1860s to study at the University, but had to leave school due to lack of money. He worked at odd jobs and lived in cheap boarding houses in the slums for several years. In 1870 he began writing sketches describing his experiences among the lower classes.
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