Another of this man's characters uses his dying breath to advise the Czar to stop cleaning guns with brick- dust.
In this author's first full-length novel, the socialist Rainer clashes with Beloyartsev, the leader of the commune "Domus Concordae," who was widely taken to be a caricature of Vasily Sleptsov. Another of this man's characters uses his dying breath to advise the Czar to stop cleaning guns with brick- dust. This man published his anti-nihilist novel No Way Out under the pseudonym M.Stebnitsky. One of this author's protagonists is a (*) left-handed craftsman from Tula who outdoes the English in putting microscopic horseshoes on the title construction, while another dreams of a cat which has the head of her murdered father-in-law Boris before then also arranging the death of her husband Zinovy. For 10 points, name this Russian author of "The Steel Flea" who inspired a Shostakovich opera with his novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District.
In this author's first full-length novel, the socialist Rainer clashes with Beloyartsev, the leader of the commune "Domus Concordae," who was widely taken to be a caricature of Vasily Sleptsov.
Nikolai [Semyonovich] {Leskov}