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Krystyna (Krzysia) Drohojowska (later Ketling of Elgin) is a fictional character in the novelFire in the Steppe byHenryk Sienkiewicz. She is a beautiful orphan who marriesHassling-Ketling of Elgin.

InJerzy Hoffman's1969 film adaptation, Krzysia is portrayed byBarbara Brylska.

Krystyna is an orphan in the care ofstolnik Makowiecki. In 1668 she arrives (together withBarbara Jeziorkowska) in Warsaw and meetsMichał Wołodyjowski. He falls in love with her and proposes. Krystyna accepts his proposal, even though her feelings for him are platonic. Soon she meetsHassling-Ketling of Elgin, Wołodyjowski's friend. Krystyna and Ketling quickly fall in love, but since she is already engaged, they can't be together. Krzysia decides then to enter a convent, but Wołodyjowski gives up Krystyna to his friend, wanting them both to be happy.

After they marry, Krystyna and Ketling live inCourland. Krystyna gives birth to a son, and later becomes pregnant again, though book does not reveal what comes of her second pregnancy. In 1672 Ketling goes toKamianets-Podilskyi which was to be attacked byTurks. Krzysia accompanies him. After the city surrenders, Ketling refuses to surrender and commits suicide, together with his friend Wołodyjowski, by blowing themselves up in a gunpowder depot.

Krystyna is a young and very beautiful woman. She is tall and slender. She's got black hair, big blue eyes and pale complexion. She is a shy and passive but honest person. When she realized her love for Ketling, she feels guilty. She prefers to become a nun rather than marry unloved Wołodyjowski. At the end of the novel, she shows up to be very brave, she decides not to leave Ketling even during the war with Turks.

• Sienkiewicz, H (1992).Fire in the Steppe. Hippocrene Books.ISBN 0-7818-0025-0.

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