Nikolai Leskov

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1831-02-16

Deathday 1895-03-05 (64 years old)

Place of Birth Gorokhovo, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Also Known As Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov, Николaй Сeмёнович Лесков, Nikolay Leskov, N. V. Leskov, Н. С. Лесков

Nikolai Leskov

Biography

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831–1895) 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 Clergy (1872), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881).

Known For

Writer

2016
Lady Macbeth

as Novel

2002
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

as Original Story

1998
On Knives

as Writer

1986
Amazon

as Original Story

1986
The Left-Hander

as Screenplay

1981
Zaujímaví muži

as Short Story

1977
Humánna povinnosť

as Short Story

1971
„Malý omyl“

as Short Story

1971
1966
1964
Left-Hander

as Book

1963
The Charming Traveller

as Original Story

1962
1927