Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in
Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev,
and later settled in St. Petersburg, where he published many short
stories and novellas, including "The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"
(1865), "The Sealed Angel" (1873), "The Enchanted Wanderer" (1873),
and "Lefty" (1882). He died in February 1895.
Together, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated
works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, and
Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club
Translation Prize (for their versions of Dostoevsky's "The Brothers
Karamazov" and Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"), and their translation of
Dostoevsky's "Demons" was one of three nominees for the same prize.
They are married and live in France.
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