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Place of Birth: Chișinău, Moldova
About Victor Crăsescu
- Victor Crasescu (October 16, 1849–1918) was an Imperial Russian-born Romanian prose writer. Born in Kishinev (Chi?inau), capital of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia Governorate, he studied at the local theological seminary until 1872, and then at Odessa University.
- He later graduated from the medical faculty of Bucharest University.
- Crasescu took part in anarchist and narodnik circles inspired by Mikhail Bakunin.
- In response, he was exiled to Switzerland in 1872, and then traveled to the United States.
- After returning to Russia, Crasescu was among the founders of a narodnik circle in his native city.
- Arrested in 1879, he disappeared, probably during the judicial inquiry, settling in the Romanian Old Kingdom.
- He was among the founding members of the Prutul Society, as was Nicolae Zubcu-Codreanu.
- As a writer, he entered the group surrounding Contemporanul magazine, where his first published work appeared; this was the 1883 sketch Legea lui Lynch.
- He sometimes used the pen name ?tefan Bassarabeanu.
- In 1891, he became director of Amicul copiilor, rising to editor in his final year there, 1895.
- He contributed to the socialist press (Drepturile omului, Dezrobirea and Lumea noua), as well as to Revista noua and Via?a literara.
- His sketches and short stories appeared in four volumes during 1893 as Schi?e ?i nuvele; the novel Ovreiul followed in 1899.
- Realist in style, Crasescu's work is characteristic of the prose found in Contemporanul.
- He died in Slanic.
- His son was the writer Sergiu Cujba.
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