Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University. The First Saint-St. Petersburg Gymnasium.
literary critic philosopher writer
Saint St. Petersburg State University. The First Saint-St. Petersburg Gymnasium.
Krestovsky came from an old family of Polish gentry (szlachta) with roots in nowadays Ukraine. In 1857 he enrolled in the Historico-Philological faculty of Street St. Petersburg University. In 1860 he left the University to become a professional writer
His novel The Slums of Saint St. Petersburg (1864), a product of many hours of personal observation, gained him considerable popularity.
In 1863 he traveled to Warsaw to take notes for his novel The Flock of Panurge (1869), about the January Uprising. In 1874 he wrote another novel, The Force, on the same subject.
His blatantly anti-Semitic trilogy The Jews are Coming was published between 1888 and 1892. He died in Warsaw in 1895. from Archive.org.
Both novels were reactionary in nature. In the 1880s Krestovsky became frankly and openly anti-Semitic in his political and social views.