Born Feb. 11 (23), 1840, in the village of Malaia Berezanka, in presentday lagotin Raion, Kiev Oblast; died Jan. 18 (30), 1895, in Warsaw. Russian writer. Krestovskii came from a gentry family. In the early 1860's he allied himself with the democratic youth movement and contributed to the Russkoe slovo (Russian Word). He later became a reactionary, and from 1892 on served as the editor in chief of the semiofficial Varshavskii dnevnik (Warsaw Diary). His works were first published in 1857. He began his liter