N.S. Leskov is an artist of an unusually wide thematic range. In his works he creates a string social types, human characters. There are many among them strong natures, extraordinary personalities. This is main character essay by N.S. Leskov "Lady Magbeth" Mtsensk district", written in 1865, - Katerina Lvovna Izmailova.

“Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in her father-in-law’s rich house.” While still a young girl, she was married off, “but not out of love or any attraction, but because Zinovy ​​Borisych Izmailov (her husband) wooed her.” Katerina did not see happiness in marriage. She spent her days in melancholy and loneliness, “from which it is fun, they say, even to hang yourself”; She had no friends or close acquaintances. Having lived with her husband for five whole years, fate never gave them children, while Katerina saw in the baby a remedy for constant melancholy and boredom. She, just like Zinovy ​​Borisych, wanted to nurse, caress and educate future heirs.

“On the sixth spring of Katerina’s marriage,” fate finally made the heroine happy, giving her the opportunity to experience the most tender and sublime feeling - love, which, unfortunately, turned out to be disastrous for Katerina.

On earth, many have loved and love, but for everyone love is something different, personal, mysterious. Some experience romantic love, while others experience passionate love. There are many more types of this wonderful feeling that can be distinguished, but Katerina loved as passionately and strongly as her ardent and hot nature allowed her. For the sake of her beloved, she was ready to do anything, make any sacrifice, and could commit a rash, even cruel act. The heroine managed to kill not only her husband and father-in-law, but also a small, defenseless child. The burning feeling not only destroyed fear, sympathy and pity in Katerina’s soul, but also gave rise to cruelty, extraordinary courage and cunning, as well as a great desire to fight for her love, resorting to any methods and means.

It seems to me that Sergei was also capable of anything, but not because he loved, but because the purpose of communicating with a bourgeois woman was to obtain some capital. Katerina attracted him as a woman who could provide the rest of her cheerful life. His plan would have worked one hundred percent after the death of the heroine’s husband and father-in-law, but suddenly the nephew of the deceased husband, Fedya Memin, appears. If earlier Sergei participated in crimes as an accomplice, a person who only helped, now he himself hints at the murder of an innocent baby, forcing Katerina to believe that Fedya is a real threat to receiving the money owed. It was said that “if it weren’t for this Fedya, she, Katerina Lvovna, would give birth to a child before nine months after her husband disappeared, she would get all her husband’s capital, and then there would be no end to their happiness.” Katerina, calculating and cold, listened to these statements, which acted like a witchcraft spell on her brain and psyche, and began to understand that this obstacle must be eliminated. These remarks sank deep into her mind and heart. She is ready to do everything (even without benefit or meaning) that Sergei says. Katya became a hostage of love, a slave of Seryozha, although social status she occupied a higher level than her beloved man.

During interrogation, in a confrontation, she openly admitted that it was she who committed the murders because of Sergei, “for him!”, because of love. This love did not extend to anyone other than the hero, and therefore Katerina rejected her child: “her love for her father, like the love of many passionate women, did not transfer any part of it to the child.” She no longer needed anything or anyone; only kind words or a look could revive her to life.

On the way to hard labor, Katerina tried to see him, “giving her the most needed quarter from her skinny wallet.” Sergei only reproached her for such an act. He argued that he himself could use the money, “it would be better if I gave it to him, it would be more useful.” Every day he became colder and more indifferent to Katerina. He began to pester the women around him on the trip. There is no hope for a quick release or further happy life he didn't have. He also did not achieve his goal: he did not see any money from Katya. All the efforts he made to achieve positive results were in vain.

By openly meeting with Sonetka and deliberately insulting Katya on the ferry, Sergei, it seems to me, was taking revenge on the heroine for the situation in which he found himself, as he thought, because of her. Katerina, seeing how her beloved man flirts with another, begins to be jealous, and the jealousy of a passionate woman is destructive not only for the heroine, but also for the people around her.

The bullying from Sergei and Sonetka is inaccessible to Katya’s mind; she could not understand their meaning, but they clearly and clearly had an effect on nervous system and the psyche of a woman. Images of the people she killed begin to appear before her. Katerina could not speak, think, understand anything: “her wandering gaze concentrated and became wild.” She went wild from Sergei’s cruel indifference; she could not accomplish anything other than suicide, since she was unable to survive or overcome such strong and passionate love in her soul. Katya probably believed that Sonetka had taken her lover away from her, so she easily managed to kill her too. Loving Sergei, she did not harm him, she just decided to leave his life.

It seems to me that when she was dying, Katerina felt disappointment and sadness in her soul, because her love turned out to be useless, unhappy, it did not bring good to people, it only destroyed several innocent people

Passionate nature or sick soul

in Leskov’s essay “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District”.

Literature lesson in 10th grade.

Teacher Shulepova Irina Anatolyevna

Didactic purpose : to contribute to the formation of UUD in the process of realizing and comprehending the idea of ​​Leskov’s essay by means of activating independent cognitive activity students.

Lesson type : a lesson in learning new material and primary consolidation.

Planned results (content goals):

Subject :

Know the concept of “essay”;

Compare heroes of different works;

Evaluate the actions of the heroes;

Analyze the text of a work of fiction.

Metasubject:

Cognitive :

Find the necessary information in the text;

Analyze, compare, contrast, generalize, draw conclusions.

Communication :

Collaborate productively and communicate with peers when solving various educational problems;

Formulate and express your own opinions on lesson problem,

Use adequately speech means for solving various communication problems.

Regulatory :

Choose actions in accordance with the assigned tasks;

Correct your own answers.

Personal:

Develop meaning-making;

Form artistic taste;

Develop the ability to be independent educational activities;

To educate a creative reader, a sensitive listener;

Educate citizens moral qualities personality.

Teaching methods : reproductive, partially search.

Forms of organization of students’ cognitive activity : frontal, individual, group.

During the classes.

There is righteous happiness, and there is sinful happiness.

The righteous will not cross anyone,

and sinners will overcome everything .

Leskov "Non-Lethal Golovan".

Fear the man whose God is in heaven .

B.Shaw.

Lesson organization.

1.Opening speech by the teacher.

The essay “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District” was first published in the magazine “Epoch” in 1865 under the title “Lady Macbeth of Our District”. The story shows the inextricable connection between capital and love crime. This is one of the artistic peaks of Leskov’s work. The main content of N. S. Leskov’s essay “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” is the theme of love, the theme of a tragic female fate.

2.Genre originality .

Define an essay.

Feature article - one of the varieties small form epic literature - a story, different from its other form, the short story, in the absence of a single, acute and quickly resolved conflict and in the greater development of the descriptive image.

An essay is an artistic and journalistic genre that combines logical-rational and emotional-imaginative ways of reflecting reality to address certain aspects of the concept of a person or social life.

Essay literaturetouches not on the problems of the formation of the character of an individual in its conflicts with the established social environment, as is inherent in the short story (and novel), but on the problems of the civil and moral state of the “environment” (usually embodied in individual individuals) - “moral descriptive” problems; it has great cognitive diversity.Essay literatureusually combines features fiction and journalism.

3. Semantics of the name, its understanding.

The first part of the title refers us to Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth"

A pre-prepared student briefly tells the content of the tragedy.

Conclusion : Shakespeare made Macbeth the complete embodiment of political despotism and ambition. Lady Macbeth is much like her husband. But this royal woman's heart turned to stone. All her feelings are subordinated to ambition. Even her love is ambitious. She loves Macbeth because he is superior to all other people. What is important to her is not the joy that loving woman receives from the reciprocal feelings of a man, and his ability to elevate himself and at the same time her. She wants to be the wife of the first person in the state. Such love happens, it can be sincere and strong in its own way, but, of course, it is a perversion of true love.

What distinguishes her from Macbeth is her determination. Her ambition is truly a passion, blind, impatient and indomitable. She is an iron woman, a devil in beautiful form. If Macbeth's ambition is a passion fighting with his moral consciousness, then in it it is a mania that has destroyed all other feelings. She is completely devoid of moral concepts.

What is strange about the title of Leskov’s work?

(Clash of concepts from different stylistic layers: “Lady Macbeth” is an association with Shakespeare’s tragedy, lady is a lady from high society, this is how we correlate a work with high content and sublime style. Mtsensk district (associations: Kukarsky district, Yaransky district) - the relationship between the tragedy and the remote Russian province).

Conclusion by name : the author expands the scope of what is happening in the essay. No matter which social group belongs, what social status a person (woman) has, he is capable of experiencing both high and low feelings, desires, and aspirations. Both good and evil coexist equally in it.

4.Analysis of the essay.

Who main character? (Katerina Lvovna Izmailova)

We pose the problematic question of the lesson: “Who is Katerina Izmailova -passionate nature or sick soul?

What kind of character did she have?Katerina Izmailova? Confirm with text.

(“the character was ardent,” that is, passionate, she was accustomed to simplicity and freedom)

(text – beginning, 1 paragraph)

Katerina Izmailova could achieve a lot both in life and in love.

Tell her marriage story. (Fictional retelling-monologue (the story of Katerina’s marriage) in the first person. (Chapter 1)).

Conclusion : in the life of Katerina Izmailova there is no love, only boredom, so she is looking for activities and entertainment on the side.

Is Katerina Izmailova to blame for this?

(both yes and no. Yes, because her life was not filled spiritually: Katerina Izmailova did not love her husband, did not have a favorite activity, did not pray, did not read. No, because her husband did not love her either)

And passion had to find its manifestation, her ardent nature had to “unfold to its full extent”

Where did her passion begin?

(from the meeting with Sergei, from how she was weighed: “Wonderful”)

The outlandish earthly heaviness means a monstrous, but still hidden force. And what does the little man say to this: “Is our body strong enough?”

How do you understand his words? (it is not the body that leaves traces on the earth, but the human soul in human memory).

What is Sergei like? How is he behaving?

(appearance: “with a daring, handsome face”

Aksinya about Sergei: “How brave!”

With Katerina Izmailova: “Sergei whispered cheekily”)

Conclusion : he knows what he is doing, you can feel in him not love, but calculation. It confirms

For what? (for money, power)

What is Katerina Izmailova like in love?

She expected something special from life - love. AND chance meeting kindled her soul so much that she asks her father-in-law for her lover. Having been refused, she poisoned her father-in-law.

Does she have any regrets, any movement of conscience?

(no, passion has captured her soul and is beyond the limits of betrayal) “She has gone mad with her happiness.” But happiness comes in different forms. Leskov has these words (see epigraph): “There is righteous happiness, and there is sinful happiness. The righteous will not step over anyone, but the sinful will step over everything.”

What is Katerina Izmailova going through?

(through God's commandments - do not commit adultery, do not kill.)

Having killed once, he kills again with ease. Talk about killing your husband (chapters 7–8).

According to the Bible, the law of marriage is: “Two are one flesh.” And Katerina Lvovna crushed this flesh with her own hands - calmly, even with sharp pride in her invincibility.

Remember the epigraph to the essay. How was he understood?

(This is just “singing the first song when you’re excited to sing”, “when you’re getting excited” - being embarrassed, not yet daring to take decisive actions, and then it will go on its own.)

And here Katerina Lvovna lives, “reigns,” even carries a child under her heart. Everything seemed to have happened according to the ideal (remember, I wanted to give birth to a baby “for fun”). This high ideal - motherhood - collides with another high Christian ideal - do not commit adultery, because the child is not from your husband - from your lover. Let us remember Katerina from Ostrovsky’s “The Thunderstorm,” who, having violated this divine law, was no longer able to live in peace: she admitted to treason because her conscience did not allow her to step over sinful happiness.)

- Does Katerina Izmailova have a conscience? (Leskov’s heroine doesn’t have this, only her wonderful dreams are still disturbing.)

Tell about Katerina Lvovna’s dreams.

1st dream – chapter 6 (the cat is just a cat for now).

2nd dream – chapter 7 (a cat that looks like Boris Timofeevich, who was killed).

Conclusion: It turns out that it’s not so easy to “sing a song.”

Dreams are symbolic. Is it possible that conscience is awakening in the young merchant’s wife? (Not yet.)

Symbolic words also sound in the mouth of grandmother Fedya (chapter 10: “Work hard, Katerinushka...”) - read.

How did you understand? (amulets of the servant of God)

- How did Katerina work? (Killed Fedya.)

And before the next murder, “her own child turned for the first time under her heart, and her chest felt cold” (Chapter 10).

- Is it a coincidence that Leskov mentions this detail?

(Nature itself, feminine nature warns her against the planned crime. But no, she does not heed the voice of the soul, the baby’s light did not break through the darkness of the soul: “He who began evil will wallow in it” (Shakespeare).

Unlike the first two murders, retribution came immediately. How did it happen?

- Why do you think - right away?

(A pure, angelic, sinless soul was destroyed. A little sufferer, a youth pleasing to God; even the name is symbolic: “Fedor” translated from Greek means “God’s gift.”)

Take a closer look at the reproduction of I. Glazunov’s painting “Boy”. What did the artist emphasize?

(Big-eyed youth against the background of icons, a hand on his chest as a paraphrase of passions for the murdered Dmitry)

Katerina’s arrest is a reproach for what she did before God. But Katerina Izmailova never mentioned God. What is this? Maybe in Mtsensk district all the people are atheists? Confirm your thought with the text (chapter 12): “Our people are devout...”

The words about Katerina Izmailova sound like an antithesis: “I’ve become depleted...”

Conclusion : the highest is violated moral law, the commandment of God is “thou shalt not kill”; for the highest value on earth is human life. That is why the depth of the moral decline of Katerina and Sergei is so great.

What does passion unleashed lead to?

(Freedom, which knows no moral restrictions, turns into its opposite. A passionate nature, finding itself in the grip of the “freedom” of crimes, is inevitably doomed to death.)

So, earthly judgment, human judgment has been completed. Did he make a special impression on Katerina Lvovna? Confirm with the text (chapter 13).

(She still loves me.)

Tell us about the relationship between Katerina Izmailova and Sergei in hard labor.

Did hard labor change Leskov’s heroine?

(Yes, now this is not a cold-blooded killer, causing horror and amazement, but a rejected woman suffering from love.)

- Do you feel sorry for her? Why?

(She is a victim, an outcast, but she still loves, even stronger (chapter 14). The more reckless her love, the more frank and cynical is Sergei’s abuse of her and her feelings. The abyss of the moral decline of the former clerk is so terrible that they are even trying to reproach him seasoned convicts).

Bernard Shaw warned: “Fear the man whose God is in heaven.” How do you understand these words?

(God is conscience, an internal judge. There is no such God in the soul - man is terrible. Sergei remained like this. This was Katerina Lvovna before hard labor.)

The changes in Katerina will help to see the appeal to the symbolism of landscape scenes.

Independent work on landscape analysis (work on the text with a pencil, 3 minutes). (The table is filled in as work progresses.)

Questions on the board:

What color is most often found in descriptions of nature?

Find the image word that Leskov uses in this passage?

What is the symbolism of the landscape scene?

Option 2.
Text, ch. 15.
“The most bleak picture”, “hell”,
dirt, darkness, gray sky, the wind moans.

Symbolism.
Dirt, darkness on the street is “hell”, but light in the soul is “heaven” (cleansing pain)

Conclusion : through physical pain a person comes to awareness, a feeling of the soul. Shakespeare in his tragedy said about Lady Macbeth: “She is sick not in body, but in soul.”

Katerina Izmailova has a sick soul. But the limit of her own suffering and torment awakens glimpses of moral consciousness in Leskov’s heroine, who previously knew neither guilt nor remorse.

The Volga makes us remember another Katerina - from Ostrovsky’s “The Thunderstorm”. We feel that the end is approaching. But Katerina Kabanova dies herself, and Katerina Izmailova takes with her another soul - Sonetka. For a moment, Katerina Lvovna’s soul seemed to enter a ray of light and again plunged into darkness.

5.Result of the conversation-analysis.

I would like to quote L. Anninsky: “Terrible unpredictability is revealed in the souls of heroes. What kind of “Thunderstorm” by Ostrovsky is there - this is not a ray of light, here a fountain of blood flows from the bottom of the soul: here “Anna Karenina” is foreshadowed - the vengeance of “demonic passion”. Here Dostoevsky’s problematics match – it was not for nothing that Dostoevsky published “Lady Macbeth...” in his magazine. You can’t fit Leskov’s heroine into any typology – a four-time murderer for love.”

How will you answer the question of the topic “Who is Katerina Izmailova -passionate nature or sick soul? Give your reasons.

6. Reflection .

What did you discover for yourself in this essay on classical Russian literature?

Homework: write a comparison essay between Katerina Kabanova and Katerina Izmailova.

>Essays based on the work of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district

The mystery of the female soul

What does a woman dream about? – A real mystery to this day. The female soul is so incomprehensible, and the soul of Ekaterina Lvovna, the main character of the essay, is no exception. What does she want, what motivates her and why does she not immediately show her character, characterized by assertiveness, passion and purposefulness. Apparently, it is love that changes people that way. It would seem that such a sublime and bright feeling should spiritualize a person, make him better, but in the case of the merchant’s wife, a terrible metamorphosis occurs, and she is driven by base and animal instincts.

So, plucking up courage, Katerina goes to her father-in-law with a request to let her lover go, and when he refuses, threatening her and shaming her, she poisons him without blinking an eye. Katerina’s mind is so clouded and her heart is engulfed in the fire of love that she does not notice how her chosen one is manipulating her. Then, inspired by Sergei’s ideas about their marriage, Katerina Lvovna decides to turn her beloved into a master, and for this, she cold-bloodedly kills her legal husband, the merchant Izmailov. Perhaps the most cruel act is the murder of a child - Fyodor Lyamin, a small heir claiming part of the capital merchant family Izmailovs. It's amazing that Catherine, bearing under her heart new life, committed such atrocity. Even more amazing is the behavior and action of the merchant’s wife towards her child. After all, she dreamed so much about motherhood, and this child is the fruit of love with Seryozhechka, dear to her heart. Katerina, as if spellbound in passion for the clerk. She sees nothing, she has only one desire to be close to her beloved, even if it is a thorny path through the stage. Ekaterina Lvovna is blind in her love.

As you know, there is a time to scatter stones and a time to collect stones. So Katerina paid for her crimes in full, and if for Sergei the punishment is hard labor, then for a woman it is the betrayal of her lover, the exposure of his vile disguise. Even understanding the futility of sinful actions, and also that Sergei’s love is just a dummy, an empty phrase, the main character is happy to continue to be deceived. But everything has its limit - the beloved man begins to mock Katerina, showing attention to other women, mocking the merchant’s wife. Overcome by jealousy and consumed by the pain of betrayal, Katerina kills herself by drowning herself in the Volga, not forgetting to take her main rival Sonetka with her.

Katerina, like any woman, wants to love and be loved, but in her desire she violates all moral laws and God's laws. Seeing no obstacles, she goes ahead, literally over corpses, towards her goal - the love and attention of an unworthy man. Despite all the crimes and evil in her soul, she is only a performer, an instrument in the skillful hands of the executioner, who is her beloved Sergei.

The daughter of the common people, who also inherited the people's scope of passions, a girl from a poor family becomes a captive of a merchant's house, where there is neither the sound of the living, nor the voice of a person, but there is only a short stitch from the samovar to the bedchamber. The transformation of the bourgeois woman, languishing from boredom and excess energy, takes place when the district heartthrob pays attention to her.

Love scatters a starry sky over Katerina Lvovna, which she had never seen before from her mezzanine: Look, Seryozha, what a paradise, what a paradise! The heroine exclaims childishly and innocently into the golden night, looking through the thick branches of a blossoming apple tree covering her at the clear blue sky, on which stood a full fine month.

But it is no coincidence that in pictures of love, harmony is disrupted by suddenly invading discord. Katerina Lvovna’s feelings cannot be free from the instincts of the possessive world and not fall under the influence of its laws. Love yearning for freedom turns into a predatory and destructive beginning.

Katerina Lvovna was now ready for Sergei through fire, water, prison and the cross. He made her fall in love with him to the point that there was no measure of devotion to him. She was distraught with her happiness; her blood was boiling, and she could no longer listen to anything...

And at the same time, Katerina Lvovna’s blind passion is immeasurably greater, more significant than self-interest, which gives shape to her fatal actions and class interests. No, her inner world not shocked by the court's decision, not excited by the birth of a child: for her there was neither light nor darkness, neither bad nor good, nor boredom, nor joy. My whole life was completely consumed by passion. When a party of prisoners sets out on the road and the heroine sees Sergei again, happiness blossoms with him in her convict life. What is the social height from which she fell into the convict world for her, if she loves and her beloved is nearby!

The class world gets at Katerina Lvovna on the washed-out transit routes. For a long time he prepared an executioner for her in the guise of a lover who had once beckoned her to happy fairy-tale Arabia. Admitting that he never loved Katerina Lvovna, Sergei is trying to take away the only thing that made up Izmailova’s life, the past of her love. And then the completely lifeless woman, in the last heroic outburst of human dignity, takes revenge on her scoffers and, dying, petrifies everyone around her. Katerina Lvovna was trembling. Her wandering gaze concentrated and became wild. Hands once or twice stretched out into space unknown where and fell again. Another minute and she suddenly swayed all over, without taking her eyes off the dark wave, bent down, grabbed Sonetka by the legs and in one fell swoop threw her over the side of the ferry. Everyone was petrified with amazement.

Leskov portrayed a strong and passionate nature, awakened by the illusion of happiness, but pursuing her goal through crimes. The writer proved that this path had no way out, but only a dead end awaited the heroine, and there could be no other way.

This wonderful work served as the basis for D. D. Shostakovich’s opera Katerina Izmailova, written in 1962. Which once again proves the extraordinary nature of N. S. Leskov’s work, who managed to find and convey the typical character traits of Katerina Lvovna, which were revealed so tragically and led the heroine to inevitable death.

Each writer in his work creates a world (which is usually called artistic), different not only from other artistic worlds, but also from the real world. Moreover, it has long been noticed that in different works The worlds of the same writer can also be different, varying depending on the characters of the characters depicted, on the complexity of the social or spiritual situation depicted by the author.

The above applies primarily to the work of such original and original writers as N.S.

The plots, characters, and themes of his works are so diverse that it is sometimes quite difficult to form an idea of ​​any artistic unity.

However, they have a lot in common, in particular: motives, tonality, character traits of the characters and main characters. Therefore, after reading several works by Leskov and opening the next one, you involuntarily tune in to a certain mood, imagine the situation, environment, atmosphere, immersed in which you discover an amazing and beautiful world in its originality.

Leskov’s world may seem strange and gloomy to an unprepared reader, because it is inhabited mainly by truth-seeking heroes, surrounded by ignorant fools, for whom the only goal is prosperity and peace of mind. However, thanks to the power of Leskov’s unique talent, life-affirming motives predominate in the depiction of heroes. Hence the feeling inner beauty and harmony art world Leskov's heroes are surprisingly pure and noble, their speech is simple and at the same time beautiful, as they convey thoughts containing eternal truths about the power of good, the need for mercy and self-sacrifice. The inhabitants of Leskov's vast world are so real that the reader is convinced that they were copied from life. We have no doubt that the author actually met them during his many trips around Russia. But no matter how ordinary and simple these people are, they are all righteous, as Leskov himself defines them. People who rise above the line of simple morality are therefore holy to the Lord. The reader clearly understands the author’s goal to draw attention to the Russian people, their character and soul. Leskov manages to fully reveal the character of a Russian person with all his pros and cons.

What is especially striking when reading Leskov’s works is his heroes’ faith in God and boundless love for their homeland. These feelings are so sincere and strong that a person overwhelmed by them can overcome all the obstacles that stand in his way. In general, a Russian person is always ready to sacrifice everything and even his life in order to achieve his high and beautiful goal. Someone sacrifices themselves for the sake of faith, someone for the sake of the Fatherland, and Katerina Izmailova, the heroine of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, sacrificed everything in order to save her love, and when all the ways and means had been tried, and the way out of the current situation was still was not found, she threw herself into the river. This is similar to the ending of Ostrovsky's play, where Katerina Kabanova dies because of her love, and in this Leskov is similar.

But no matter how beautiful and pure of soul a Russian person is, he also has negative qualities, one of which is the tendency to drink. And Leskov denounces this vice in many of his works, the heroes of which understand that drinking is stupid and absurd, but they cannot help themselves. This is probably also a purely Russian feature of the behavior of letting go of one’s soul by drowning one’s grief in wine.

Growing up in the lap of nature, among beautiful landscapes, space and light, Leskov’s simple hero from the people strives for something sublime, for beauty and love. For each specific hero, this desire manifests itself in its own way: for Ivan Flyagin it is a love of horses, and for Mark Alexandrov it is an enthusiastic attitude towards art, towards an icon.

Leskov’s world is the world of Russian people, carefully created and preserved by them for themselves. All works were written by Leskov with such an understanding of even the most incomprehensible depths of the human psyche, with such love for the righteous and Russia, that the reader involuntarily becomes imbued with Leskov’s style of writing, begins to really think about the questions that once worried the writer and have not lost their relevance and in our time.

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