The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for an acclaimed new film starring Florence Pugh Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia, with a fascination for idiosyncratic characters, lurid crimes, comic absurdity, ...

The air was still; only the lightest of warm breezes ruffled the sleepy leaves diffusing a delicate scent of flowering grasses and trees, instilling languor and indolence and conjuring up dark desires. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см....

\'He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire.\' The Steel Flea is an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia\'s great comic......

Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers, Leskov’s writing exuberantly fables the national character of his age....

In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia....

Русский писатель Николай Семенович Лесков - самобытный и оригинальный художник слова с ярко выраженной своеобразной манерой письма....