The title character of one of his tales is controlled by a priest whose death he brought about.  
He wrote a ghost story which is told by a "moth-eaten aristocrat" named Galaktion, "The White Eagle," while he wrote about a police officer who is instructed to find out what people are going to think in "The March Hare."  Private Postnikov deserts his post to save a man from drowning in "The Sentry," while a saying about a steel flea made by the English inspired his "The Left-Handed Craftsman."  The title character of one of his tales is controlled by a priest whose death he brought about.  That story originated in his trip to the monastery islands of Korela and Konevetz on Lake Ladoga, while he locked himself into the punishment rooms of the University of Kiev in order to write his best-known work, which appeared in the magazine Epoch in 1865.  FTP, name this author of "The Enchanted Wanderer," who wrote about a merchant's wife named Katerina Izmaylova in his Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
He wrote a ghost story which is told by a "moth-eaten aristocrat" named Galaktion, "The White Eagle," while he wrote about a police officer who is instructed to find out what people are going to think in "The March Hare."  
Nikolai Leskov