Warrior. Sheepskin. Lady McBet Mtsensk district: Nikolai Leskov

Tales and stories of Leskov. Tragic – or tragicomic. Dead -nerd – or, on the contrary, frankly funny. However, they are all united by the hell of the Russian provincial life – life, in which even the most pure, most touching impulses of the human soul take ugly and terrible forms. The devotion of the peasants to the Lord seems ridiculous, anecdotal. An attempt by a young woman to gain freedom ends with shame and pain. The passion of a beautiful merchant to the clerk becomes a motive for a series of crimes. And the naive throwing of the “extra person” from the hinterland completely cause laughter through tears …

Author
Leskov Nikolai Semenovich
Editor
Shishkova I. L.
Publisher
AST, 2012
Series
Russian classics