Russian Bulletin, July 1871. The first publication of the novels "Demons". p. 72 - 143 and " At loggerheads ", p ...

Russian Bulletin, July 1871. The first publication of the novels "Demons". p. 72 - 143 and " At loggerheads ", p 293 - 343 .
Magazine literary and political, published By M. Katkov. Volume ninety-four.

M. In University Printing. 1871 376 PP., Appendix: novel by Fate pages 193-288, novel adventures of Harry Richmond pages 321-352. Softcover, size 15 x 22.5 cm Print, glued spine, some pages are cut from the bottom (without loss of text), bent corners, frayed edges of the pages, the cover is torn along the spine.

On knives: the end of the fifth part, chapters 29-35. Demons: the second part, chapters 1-2.

"On knives" is a novel by Nikolai Leskov. First published in the journal "Russian Bulletin" № 10-12 for 1870, № 1-8, 10 for 1871. In November 1871, a separate edition of the novel was published. Because of the abundant editing of the editor, the work did not correspond to the original intention of the author, as Leskov himself in a letter to P. K. Schebalsky on October 14, 1871 says: "Yes, more: what does it mean that in the September book there is no end to my novel, which is sent, it seems, in a timely manner? If again that is not to their liking, it was necessary to send a correction, and I would re. I was crushed by this novel, and I hated it as I did not think, thanks to all these qui pro quo".

Trouble with the publication of the novel can be traced in the correspondence of Leskov. In a letter to the employee of the "Russian Herald" N. A. Lyubimov dated November 18, 1870 (soon after the publication of the beginning of the novel), the author is outraged by the arbitrariness of the editorial office: "the most Deadly effect on me is that I can not understand the reasons produced in my novel is not editorial cuts and harmful changes. So, released speech, I have laid the basis for the development of the characters and tasks (e.g., care Foraway bring your husband to God); severely offset by the typicality of the language, replaced by the banal properties (for example, instead of: "don't eat so much meat, how much tooth will repliesi" with the word "lose"), relaxed panache of persons <...>".

In April 1871, Leskov wrote to Schebalsky: "it is difficult not to complain about the editorial office of R<ussky> V<estnik>, because you yourself see that you have to sculpt, and re-sculpt to and fro, and from all this nothing else comes out but annoyance, cooling of energy, irritation, decline of creative forces and, finally, actual absurdities and incongruities such as those that You

Leskov acknowledged P. K. Shemalescom in the same letter: "...I was finishing the novel, crumpling all out, if only to fulfill the program."

The novel was not included in Leskov's collected works, published in eleven volumes in the fifties (M.; L.: Fiction, 1954-1958) for censorship and political reasons.