# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-leskov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:03:03.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-leskov"
name: "Nikolai Leskov"
slug: "nikolai-leskov"
description: "Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov 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. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), which was later made into an opera by Shostakovich); The Cathedral Folk (1872); The Enchanted Wanderer (1873); and \"The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea\" (1881)."
tagline: "Russian writer (1831–1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Serov_Leskov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1831-02-04"
deathDate: "1895-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump