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Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831-1895) - Russian writer and publicist, author of stories and stories "Tuple Artist", "Wathered Angel", "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district". "Fascinated Wanderer", "Story Remica", "Midnights", Romanov “Nowhere” and "On the Knives", Chronicles "Soboryans" and others.
Born in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol district (now Sverdlovsk region) in the family of the daughter of an impoverished nobleman and a former seminar, who became an employee of the criminal chamber. Leskov himself served in court, but he did not, as his father, did not, carried away by icon painting, the Old Believers, and then entered a private company, for which he traveled half-Russia, getting acquainted with the language and life of the country.
Leskov’s writing activity began with essays and articles in the St. Petersburg publications "Domestic Notes", "Russian Speech", "Northern Bee" and others, and at 32 he made his debut as a writer.
Already in the first stories, Leskov’s original humor, his unique style - a variety of a special tale, which is so vividly highlighted in the famous "left -handed", was manifested. This story was based on a gun legend about how the British made a flea from steel, and our Tulas brought her and they sent them back. The funny bike about the victory of the Russian masters over the English lift to the tragedy of the epic, and the unforgettable language, the “funny and funny language”, sprinkled with puns of virtuoso mergers of Russian and foreign words, made the left -handed person a household name.
"Pygmies", like the “left -handed”, is a portrait from the cycle of" righteous", conceived by Leskov as a gallery of “good people "and tells of a“ little man ”, unexpectedly capable of a great disinterested business.
In a different - Gothic style, the Holy Story “Ghost in the Engineering Castle” was written, but from the mystical -souver it grows into a picture of mercy and love