The Amazon

Synopsis

The Amazon (Russian: Вои′тельница, romanized: Voitelnitsa; translated also as The Warrior Woman) is a short novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in the April (vol.1; No.7) 1866 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski, with a dedication to the artist Mikhail Mikeshin (with whom the author was friends at the time). It was included into the collection (vol. 1, 1967) Novelets, Sketches and Stories by M.Stebnitsky (Stebnitsky being Leskov's pseudonym) and later into the Works by N.S. Leskov (1889), in a slightly revised version. The epigraph, "The whole of my life has been a set of lessons, of which my death is but another one," comes from the lyrical drama Lucius (Люций) by Apollon Maykov (Seneka's words in part 1 of it).

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Details

Type

Book

Release date

January 1, 1866

Created by

Nikolai Leskov

Countries

Russian Empire