Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (died 1895)

Nikolai Leskov

Russian writer and novelist (1831–1895)

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…