Leskov, Nikolai Semyonovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...writer of narrative tales, told in a colorful, vital, and humorous style. An early story of sex and violence, "Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District" (1866; tr. in The Sentry, 1922), was used by Shostakovich as the basis of an opera...