Nikolai Leskov

The ​award-winning translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery, whose earthy and exuberant stories, famous in his own country, have never before been adequately translated into English. Leskov was Chekhov’s favorite writer and...

Translators Preface IjjP^'ü^it^! Nikolai Leskov was bom in the village of Gorokhovo, Oiyol Province, on February 16, 1831. He was the son of a poor civil servant. As a child, he came in close contact with the common people, his grandmother, Alexandra Alferyev, taking him with her to the...