Nikolai Leskov

Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895), born in the province of Orel, the son of a judicial investigator from a clerical family, entered in 1847 the registry of the criminal court of Orel, then served in Kiev. In 1857 he joined the company Scott and Wilkins, run by his aunt's Scottish husband, and travelled across Russia on its behalf, learning its dialects and trades. An 1862 article on the fires in Saint Petersburg set him at odds with the democratic press. He liked to write in imitation of a storyteller's voice. He died in Saint Petersburg.

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• NarrativeLady Macbeth of the Mtsensk DistrictЛеди Макбет Мценского уездаNikolai Leskov · 1865LiteraturePublic domain