Russian Herald. The first publication of Leskov's novel "at knives". pp. 263-341

Russian Herald. The first publication of Leskov's novel "at knives". pp. 263-341
Magazine literary and political, published By M. Katkov.

M. In University Printing. 1871 380 PP, Appendix: novel by Fate 48C, novel adventures of Harry Richmond pages 193-224. Softcover, size 15 x 22.5 cm Print, glued spine, some pages are cut from the bottom (without loss of text), bent corners, frayed edges of the pages, the cover in a fragmentary form, torn along the spine.

On knives: Part three, chapters 6-8.

"On knives" is a novel by Nikolai Leskov. First published in the journal "Russian Bulletin" № 10-12 for 1870, № 1-8, 10 for 1871. In November 1871, a separate edition of the novel was published. Because of the abundant editing of the editor, the work did not correspond to the original intention of the author, as Leskov himself in a letter to P. K. Schebalsky on October 14, 1871 says: "Yes, more: what does it mean that in the September book there is no end to my novel, which is sent, it seems, in a timely manner? If again that is not to their liking, it was necessary to send a correction, and I would re. I was crushed by this novel, and I hated it as I did not think, thanks to all these qui pro quo".

Trouble with the publication of the novel can be traced in the correspondence of Leskov. In a letter to the employee of the "Russian Herald" N. A. Lyubimov dated November 18, 1870 (soon after the publication of the beginning of the novel), the author is outraged by the arbitrariness of the editorial office: "the most Deadly effect on me is that I can not understand the reasons produced in my novel is not editorial cuts and harmful changes. So, released speech, I have laid the basis for the development of the characters and tasks (e.g., care Foraway bring your husband to God); severely offset by the typicality of the language, replaced by the banal properties (for example, instead of: "don't eat so much meat, how much tooth will repliesi" with the word "lose"), relaxed panache of persons <...>".

In April 1871, Leskov wrote to Schebalsky: "it is difficult not to complain about the editorial office of R<ussky> V<estnik>, because you yourself see that you have to sculpt, and re-sculpt to and fro, and from all this nothing else comes out but annoyance, cooling of energy, irritation, decline of creative forces and, finally, actual absurdities and incongruities such as those that You

Leskov acknowledged P. K. Shemalescom in the same letter: "...I was finishing the novel, crumpling all out, if only to fulfill the program."

The novel was not included in Leskov's collected works, published in eleven volumes in the fifties (M.; L.: Fiction, 1954-1958) for censorship and political reasons.