Lady Macbeth Mtsensk district. Leskov N.

n. S. Leskov is a wonderful Russian writer, author of the famous “left -handed people”, “dumb artist”, “enchanted wanderer”, “Soboryan”, “imprinted angel”... “... Leskov - for a long and unfairly not recognized classic of the first row of Russian literature.... All his life and a centuries -old afterless Nikolai Leskov was between the scorching lights. Imperial bureaucracy did not forgive him toxic arrows at her; Slavophiles were angry with words about the meaninglessness of the idealization of "pre -Petrine dope and Krivda"; The clergy was worried about the suspiciously good knowledge of this secular master of the problems of church history and modernity... He was close in the spirit of Saltykov-Shchedrin, that is, the tendenesium of the normal tendency of the Russian person, concerned not with icy heights of the spirit, but the problems of everyday life and survival of the Fatherland " (Andrey Krotkov). The present edition includes Leskov’s famous story “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district” (on the basis of which D. Shostakovich created the opera Katerina Izmailova, and the famous film was shot directed by R. Balayan) and the story “Laughter and Woe”.