WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Leskov has received more than 296,491 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Nikolai Leskov is the 1,073rd most popular writer (up from 1,130th in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Russia (up from 412th in 2019) and the 41st 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."

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Levsha
1921
Prose
1958
Tupeĭnyĭ khudozhnik
1922
The enchanted wanderer
Written over the course of Leskov' s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and subtle criticism atop myth and fable, resulting in a richly entertaining collection.
1924
Sobori︠a︡ne
Fiction
18724 / 5
The musk-ox and other tales
Fiction
1944
Levsha
Fiction
1921
Sobori︠a︡ne
Fiction, Russian literature, translations into english
1872
Sobranie sochinenii
1956
The musk-ox and other tales
Social life and customs, Fiction
1944
Prose
1958
The enchanted wanderer
Translations into English, Social life and customs, Fiction
1924

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Leskov ranks 1,073 out of 7,302. Before him are Madeleine de Scudéry, Ilia Chavchavadze, Diana Wynne Jones, Dionysius Thrax, Robert Graves, and Elsa Morante. After him are Georg Kaiser, Pu Songling, Charles Péguy, John Malalas, Jean Giono, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Nikolai Leskov ranks 21. Before him are Eduard Suess, Joseph Joachim, Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Victorien Sardou, Albert Anker, and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Nadezhda von Meck, and Ilya Ulyanov. Among people deceased in 1895, Nikolai Leskov ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Arthur Cayley, and Carl Ludwig. After him are Camilla Collett, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Frederick Douglass, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Lord Randolph Churchill, and Franz Ernst Neumann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 379 out of 3,761. Before him are Henri Troyat (1911), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Eduard Khil (1934), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), and Aleksandr Karelin (1967). After him are Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), and Viktor Tsoi (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nikolai Leskov ranks 41. Before him are Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), and Henri Troyat (1911). After him are Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), Bulat Okudzhava (1924), and Sophia Tolstaya (1844).

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