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.
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