My memories

Leikin Nikolai Alexandrovich (1841-1906) - a famous Russian comedian. Genus. In the ancient St. Petersburg merchant family, education received education in Petersb. The German Reformed School was a clerk, served in an insurance company, but soon left commercial activities. For the past 15 years, L. has been taking an active part in St. Petersburg. City Duma. L. is an extremely prolific writer. Starting with small humorous essays and poems in the "Russian World", "Iskra" and others, and placing the essays "Apraksins" ("Bibl. For reading", 1863), "Exchange Arteliers" ("Contemporary". , 1864) et al., L. since the beginning of the 1870s. It becomes a permanent employee of the “St. Petersburg newspaper "and here almost every day it places the" scenes" from the merchant, philistine and lower St. Petersburg life. The total number of written scenes reaches 10 thousand, only part of them entered forty separate volumes. Better known collections of scenes L.: "Where the oranges ripen" (6th ed), "Ours abroad"