Nikolai Leskov
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Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative
Portrait of Leskov by Valentin Serov, 1894
The owners of the business I found myself in were all English, had no experience of Russian life whatsoever, and were squandering the capital they'd brought with them in the most optimistic manner. Nikolai Leskov on Scott & Wilkins.
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Leskov c1880s
The Enchanted Wanderer
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The Enchanted Wanderer is a skaz-based novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in Russkiy Mir newspaper in 1873. The protagonist is a Russian wanderer.
Nikolai Leskov
…literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich); The Cathedral Folk (1872); The Enchanted Wanderer (1873); and "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881). Leskov received his formal education at the Oryol Lyceum. In 1847 Leskov…
The Enchanted Wanderer