13 Facts About Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya's married name was Zayonchkovskaya.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya published much of her work under the pseudonym V Krestovsky.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya later added "alias" to her pseudonym to avoid being confused with the writer Vsevolod Krestovsky.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya began writing for intellectual and artistic satisfaction and as a way to relieve the family's impoverished condition.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya published her first poems in 1842, when she was eighteen years old.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya wrote over one hundred poems in her lifetime, most of which were never published.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya was a prolific writer, publishing many novels and stories in Notes of the Fatherland, The Contemporary and other journals.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya was often stressed and overworked, and suffered from various health problems which were made worse by progressive scoliosis, and by the early death of her sister Sofia, with whom she was especially close.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya's husband died in 1872 from tuberculosis that had been worsened by his time in exile.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya went on to write many successful and well regarded novels, including The Boarding School Girl, which has been translated into English, and Ursa Major.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya was known for her critical work, publishing articles on popular writers such as Ivan Goncharov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and for her translations of the works of French writers, including several of George Sand's novels.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya spent most of her life in Ryazan, only visiting her friends in St Petersburg once or twice a year.

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya died at a summer cottage in Petergof, outside St Petersburg, in 1889.