Maya A. Kucherskaya

Nikolai Leskov and Wincenty Korotyński: Toward a History of the Creative Dialogue

This article focuses on a virtually unstudied episode in Nikolai Leskov’s literary apprenticeship under the Polish writer Wincenty Korotyński. Leskov dedicated his early novella The Life of a Peasant Woman (1863) to Korotyński, which, in our view, was not merely a friendly gesture but an acknowledgment that Korotyński’...