The main genre of Leykin is scenes. Even his novels (“Stukin and Khrustalnikov,” 1886, “Satin and a Nymph,” 1888, and others) are a series of scenes connected by the unity of characters and the plot.
The magazine “Oskolki” was, in Chekhov’s words, a literary “crucible,” and Leykin was his “godfather” (see Chekhov’s letter to L. dated December 27, 1887), whose advice inspired him to start writing “short little story-scenes.”
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