Biography childhood and youth

Leskov was born on February 4 on February 4 in the village of Gorokhov, the Oryol province, in the estate of the nobles of insurance - his aunt along the mother’s line. Leskov called the eagle "a microscope of the whole land of the Russian." The eagle, the writer noted, "drove so many Russian writers on his small waters as no other Russian city has been to the benefit of their homeland." Oryol memories have been preserved by the writer until the end of his days, becoming a source for his works.

The mother of the writer, Maria Petrovna, came from an old noble family and was an unusually pious woman, a church "old -style." She paid much attention to religious education in the family. However, the greatest impact on the formation of the worldview of the future writer was had by his grandmother, Akilina Vasilievna, also a “very religious old woman”, who loved to take her grandson with him to the Morilly.

Such "trips" will be one of the most striking impressions for the boy. As we see, the future writer "from the early years of life had an attraction to issues of faith." And it is no coincidence that the first of the N. read Leskov Books were the “New Russian ABC”, with the help of which the future writer independently learned to read and write, and “One hundred and four sacred stories from the Old and New Testament ...”: “I learned literacy myself, without a teacher, and read this book, having five years from family ...” N.

Leskov loved books and there was a large expert in them. After him there was a beautiful library.

Leskov also loved animals, dogs and birds, especially canaries. And even taught them to sing. Leskov’s childhood of the future writer passed on the estate of insurance. Here, along with cousins, Nikolai received home schooling and education, learned several foreign languages. Then he, along with his parents, moved to the eagle. Father, Semyon Dmitrievich, was a native of the clergy, studied at the seminary, but managed to make a good career as an official in the noble chamber and even get a noble title.

He had a reputation as a fundamental person, read a lot. In the year, the parents of the future writer bought a “small image in the Kromsky district” of the Oryol province on the shore of the Gostoli River. Father seriously decided to do agriculture. A house with a balcony under a straw roof, a water mill, a garden, a garden, two peasant courtyards and about 40 t prestns of the land - here are the whole landlord economy of the Leskovs, in which there were seven children Nikolai the eldest.

About childhood in Kromas, Leskov preserved the warmest memories that he carried through his whole life: in the summer he caught the sand and Goltsov, "who were a great many in our narrow but pure river Gostol," in the winter he rolled his younger sister with a hill above the spring. He later mentioned Kroma in many works more than once. For some time N. Leskov studied at the Oryol gymnasium, but did not graduate from it.

The future writer entered the service of an ordinary scribe in the Oryol Chamber of the Criminal Court. This experience gave him good material for future works. In the sixteenth year, Leskov lost his father, and the property of the family died in a fire that destroyed most of the wooden city.