Nikolai Leskov
Николай Семёнович Лесков
Nikolai Semeyonevich Leskov
eastern europe
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 experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short 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).— Wikipedia
Works
Овцебык
Musk-ox (Nikolai Leskov)
Некуда
No Way Out
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Островитяне
The Islanders
Старые годы в селе Плодомасове
Old Years in Plodomasovo
На ножах
At Daggers Drawn
Соборяне
The Cathedral Folk
Очарованный странник
The Enchanted Wanderer
Short Works (27)
“The Life of a Peasant Woman” [“Житие одной бабы”].Short Story.· 1863.
The Life of a Peasant Woman is a short novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in 1863's 7th and 8th issues of Biblioteka dlya chteniya magazine, under the moniker of M. Stebnitsky. It has never been re-issued in its author's lifetime. In 1924 the novel was published in Leningrad by an editor and literary historian Pyotr Bykov in a different version and under the new title, Amour in Lapotochki subtitled: "An attempt at a peasant novel. The new, unpublished version." This publication caused controversy and later its authenticity has been called into question. In the latter Soviet collections the original 1863 Leskov text was used, all the editorial cuts and additions being mentioned in commentaries.
“The Stinger” [“Язвительный”].Short Story.· 1863.
“Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” [“Леди Макбет Мценского уезда”].Short Story.· 1865.
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov. It was originally published in Fyodor Dostoevsky's magazine Epoch.
“The Amazon / The Warrior Woman” [“Воительница”].Short Story.· 1866.
The Amazon is a short novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in the April 1866 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski, with a dedication to the artist Mikhail Mikeshin. It was included into the collection Novelets, Sketches and Stories by M.Stebnitsky and later into the Works by N.S. Leskov (1889), in a slightly revised version. The epigraph, "The whole of my life has been a set of lessons, of which my death is but another one," comes from the lyrical drama Lucius (Люций) by Apollon Maykov.
“Kotin the Milker and Platonida” [“Котин доилец и Платонида”].Short Story.· 1867.