Leskov"s Necklace

“The topic is the fate of Leskov’s books. The experience of their development. The experience is controversial. But also eloquent: to match the writer himself, frantic in passions, careless in actions, unpredictable in decisions and, however, the firm in how he saw and understood reality. ”
In the third, revised and substantially supplemented edition of the book of Lev Aleksandrovsky Anninsky, Leskovskoye Necklace, which is rightfully considered the best work about Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, new chapters dedicated to literary works and journalism (“Warrior”, “on knives” , “The fascinated wanderer”, “on the edge of the world”, “trifles of bishop’s life”, “Jew in Russia”, “Inspired tramps”, etc) “The most Russian of our writers”