In one of his most famous stories, a left-handed craftsman puts tiny horseshoes on the title object when the czar orders him to outdo the English in craftsmanship.
scene in one of this author's works is based on an incident in which a man crossed a river by walking on a chain with a barrel of vodka around his neck. He wrote a novel in which Ivan Flyagin later regrets his decision to not join a monastery as a young man. Several of his works were published under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky, including his debut novel, Musk-Ox. He never finished writing A Decayed Family, the third part of a trilogy whose first two parts are Old Times in Plodomasovo and The Cathedral Clergy. In one of his most famous stories, a left-handed craftsman puts tiny horseshoes on the title object when the czar orders him to outdo the English in craftsmanship. This author of "The Steel Flea" also wrote a novel in which Sergei and the title character murder Fyodor, Zinovy and the title character's husband Boris. For 10 points, name this author of a work which inspired a Shostakovich opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
scene in one of this author's works is based on an incident in which a man crossed a river by walking on a chain with a barrel of vodka around his neck.
Nikolai Leskov