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Nikolai Leskov

1831 - 1895

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Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831 – 5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich); The Cathedral Folk (1872); The Enchanted Wanderer (1873); and "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (1881). Leskov received his formal education at the Oryol Lyceum. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Leskov is the 1,115th most popular writer (down from 1,072nd in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Russia (up from 379th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Writer.

Nikolai Leskov is most famous for his novel "The Enchanted Wanderer" and the short story "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District."

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Among writers, Nikolai Leskov ranks 1,115 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Ostrovsky, D. T. Suzuki, Herodian, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Len Deighton. After him are Jeff Lindsay, Rustichello da Pisa, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, John Cheever, Aleksis Kivi, and Arnold Zweig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Nikolai Leskov ranks 24. Before him are Victorien Sardou, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, and Nadezhda von Meck. After him are Ilya Ulyanov, Albert Anker, Peter Tait, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Constantin Meunier. Among people deceased in 1895, Nikolai Leskov ranks 19. Before him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, John Russell Hind, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Charles Frederick Worth, and Johann Josef Loschmidt. After him are Friedrich Miescher, Arthur Cayley, Frederick Douglass, James Dwight Dana, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Carl Ludwig.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 377 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Oganessian (1933), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), and Alexander Ostrovsky (1823). After him are Eugen Sandow (1867), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Sergei Skripal (1951), and Ilya Ulyanov (1831).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 43. Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), and Alexander Ostrovsky (1823). After him are Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), and Gavrila Derzhavin (1743).

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