Background
She was born on August 29, 1855 in Moscow, Russia into a family of Russian nobility. Her father was a botanist Andrey Beketov.
Saint Petersburg Gymnasium
She was born on August 29, 1855 in Moscow, Russia into a family of Russian nobility. Her father was a botanist Andrey Beketov.
First education Ekaterina Andreyevna received at home. In 1877 she passed the exams at the 6th Saint Petersburg Gymnasium and entered the Higher Women's Courses (Bestuzhev Courses) in Saint Petersburg; she studied with A. N. Veselovsky, she did not finish the courses.
Ekaterina Andreyevna wrote children's literature. She made her debut in literature by arranging Bret Hart’s short story "Baby Sylvester" and poems for children, signed by the cryptonym E. B-va. In the "Otechestvennye Zapiski" was published her story "Ne sud'ba" (1881). She participated in the magazines "Iskra", "Vestnik mody", "Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya", "Nablyudatel" and others.
Ekaterina Andreyevna gained fame as a children's writer and author of revisions for the youthful reading of episodes from the novels of Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, and other foreign writers.
In 1892, Ekaterina Andreyevna died of eclampsia following a medically mandated abortion.
In 1891 Ekaterina Andreyevna married a translator, literary critic, and publicist P.N. Krasnov.