Ekaterina Andreyevna Krasnova (''née'' Beketova; ; – ) was a Russian poet, writer, and translator. She was born in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility, the daughter of botanist Andrey Beketov. She also wrote

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and invested much attention on her nephew

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

. In 1892, she died of

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following a medically mandated abortion.

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1892 deaths 1855 births Russian women poets Writers from Moscow 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century women writers from the Russian Empire Deaths in childbirth {{Russian-poet-stub