Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya/ Надежда Дмитриевна Хвощинская, May 20, 1824 – June 8, 1889), was a Russian writer.
Nadezhda received most of their education at home from private tutors. She wrote under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky, and formed a productive literary partnership with her sister, the writer Sofia Khvoshchinskaya. The two published fiction and translated books to support their family, and Nadezhda was one of the most successful Russian women writers of the 19th-century. She was friends with, among others, Ivan Turgenev.
Books
In English
- The Boarding-School Girl, tr. Karen Rosneck (2000. Original: Pansionerka/ Пансионерка, 1861)
