The Unbaptized Priest

2 hrs. 20 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Nikolai Leskov

Narrator Igor Sidorchik

Description

A remarkable humorous novella by Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, “The Unbaptized Priest” (1877), tells of one extraordinary incident of Little-Russian everyday life. Skillfully voiced, the book conveys the variety of N. S. Leskov’s creative colors—Ukrainian speech, the emotionality of dialogues, and the beauty of landscape descriptions.

Dedicated to Fyodor Ivanovich Buslaev

This brief account of a real, though incredible, event is dedicated by me to the venerable scholar, a connoisseur of the Russian word— not because I claim that this story deserves attention as a literary work. No; I dedicate it to F. I. Buslaev’s name because this original event has already, even during the lifetime of the main figure, taken on the character of a fully formed legend among the people; and it seems to me that tracing how a legend is formed is no less interesting than penetrating “how history is made.”