Justina Kruzenshtern-Perets

Yustina Vladimirovna Kruzenshtern-Peterets (; June 19, 1903 – June 8, 1983) was a Russian-born journalist, poet, and author.

After spending much of her childhood in Harbin, China, Kruzenshtern-Peterets became a significant contributor to Russian diaspora publications both there and in Shanghai. After the Communist takeover, she left for Brazil and later the United States, where she worked both for Voice of America and for Russian-language media in New York and California. In addition to her journalistic writing, she produced short stories and poetry, which was heavily influenced by her youth in China.

Birth and family Yustina Kruzenshtern was born in 1903 in Vladivostok, in what was then the Russian Empire. She was descended from the Estonian noble family that included the famous admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern. Her father, a captain, died fighting in World War I.

In late 1930, she moved to Shanghai. In addition to her journalistic writing, she published works of poetry, including the 1946 collection Poems. Book 1. She also continued to write poetry, and in 1969 she published a short story collection, Ulybka psishi. After her retirement from VOA, she settled in the San Francisco area, where starting in 1982 she worked as an editor for the newspaper . She died in San Mateo in 1983, at the age of 79.