Krestovskiy Nychyporchuk

(1840 - 1895). Was a student of History and Philology at St. Petersburg University, but the course did not finish. Literary activity began poems (a separate edition, St. Petersburg., 1862). Widespread fame he has delivered written in a sensational manner of a great novel "Petersburg slums," printed in "Notes of the Fatherland" from 1864 to 1867, Mr.. (separate 5 editions). The following works are devoted to Krestovsky unilateral denunciation movement of the sixties, the author of the linked with the Polish insurrection. This includes his novels "Panurgovo herd" and "Two forces" (in Russian Messenger "), issued in 1875. under the general title "Bloody poof". The Russian Messenger "and the novel it is printed:" Dark Egyptian "(against Jews, a separate edition 1889). In the late sixties Krestovskiy entered military service in Yamburg Lancers. Preparation of the history of the Regiment (1876) gave him transfer to the Guards. Military life devoted to his "From hiking essays" (1874) and "Sketches of Chevalier. Life "(1892). During the war 1877 - 1878 g. Krestovskiy wrote a theater of war correspondence in the Official Gazette (separately "Twenty months in the army", 1879). In 1880, Mr.. he made a circumnavigation of the squadron of Admiral Lesovsky described them in The Russian Messenger. In 1882, Mr.. appointed official for special assignments MG. Cherniaiev, who was then Governor-General of Turkestan. The rank of colonel entered the service in the corps of border guards. In 1892, Mr.. appointed editor in chief of the Warsaw Diary. Apart from the, . separately published "edition Krestovsky" (1863), "St. Petersburg Types" (1865 and 1868), "Outside the Law" (novel, . 1873 and 1876), "Santa" (historical novel 1875, . 1885, . 1891); Tale, . Essays and stories "(3rd edition 1872)," The Grass "(1876)," Away from the Emir of Bukhara (1887).,