Under the southern sky. Humorous description of the trip of spouses

Reprint from the publication. SPb. 1899. Leikin Nikolai Alexandrovich (1841-1906) - famous 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, bourgeois 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" (11th ed), "Lazorevye flowers"," Our Funny "," Unwashing Russians", "Joking Gorosovs"," Savras without depths" and others. Humor L. does not always chase typicalness and is very often limited to the desire to amuse the reader with ridiculous words. But there are serious sides in his works. Despite the fact that he writes almost all his life for the audience of the "small press", L. never pleases her tastes and, as far as he wants to be an exposure of the “dark kingdom”. Editing L. since 1880, a humorous magazine "Shards" is free from pornography, which makes up the main bait of many humorous publications. L. also wrote several funny plays for the stage: "you need to get used to", "medal", "Kum Fireman" and others.
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