Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian Николай Семёнович Лесков) (1831-1895) was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Oryol, and started his education at the lycee in his hometown, but in 1846 a fire and his fathers death forced to find work instead. His literary career started in 1861 when he started to work in a journal in St. Petersburg. The year after he published his first prose work "Pogassee Delo". His first novel came three years later, in 1864. His other works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), which was later made into an opera, The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea (1881) and the novel Cathedral Folk (1872).

Bibliography

• Nekuda (1864)
• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Other Stories (1865)
• Na Nozhakh (1870)
• The Enchanted Wanderer (1873)
• The Sealed Angel (1873)

"Pamfalon the mounthbank (1887)

External links

• Nikolai S. Leskov at Pegasos