Nikolai Leykin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin was a Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher.

Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twentyfive editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business men.

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