Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2018-10-236-252 Articles Two letters by N.S. Leskov Sobolev Lev I. editor@litfact.ru 2018 N.S. Leskov A.M. Khiryakov L.Ya. Gurevich “Severnyi vestnik” (The Northern Herald) Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 In the present note two letters sent in the summer of 1893 by Nikolai Semenovich Leskov to an unknown addressee are published, the addressee of these letters is identified as A.M. Khiryakov, the attribution of the addressee is grounded. The publication is supplied with necessary comments. 1. Grechishkin S.S. Arkhiv L.Ia. Gurevich [Lyubov Gerevich papers]. Ezhegodnik rukopisnogo otdela Pushkinskogo doma na 1976 god [Pushkin House Manuscript Department Annual for 1976]. Lningrad, Nauka Publ., 1978, pp. 3–29. (In Russ.) 2. Leskov N.S. Sobranie sochinenii: V 11 t. T. 11 [Collected works in 11 vols. Vol. 11]. Moscow, Goslitizdat Publ., 1958. 862 p. (In Russ.) 3. N.S. Leskov v vospominaniiakh sovremennikov [N.S. Leskov in memoirs of his contemporaries], comp., ed., publ. of memoirs by O.A. Fribes, A.E. Zarin and E.I. Zarina, comment. by L.I. Sobolev, publ. of diary extracts by S.I. Smirnova-Sazonova, comment. of diary by L.S. Danilova and V.V. Somina, introd. by A.M. Ranchin. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ,, 2018. 832 p. (In Russ.) 4. Slovar' russkikh narodnykh govorov. Vyp. 35: Revet' – Riashchik [Dictionary of Russian folk dialects. Issue 35]. St. Petersburg, Nauka Publ., 2001. 360 p. (In Russ.) 5. Tunimanov V.A. Pis'ma N.S. Leskova k L.Ia. Gurevich [N.S. Leskov’s letters to L.Ya. Gurevich]. Pamiatniki kul'tury: Novye otkrytiia. Pis'mennost', iskusstvo, arkheologiia. Ezhegodnik. 1980 [Cultural monuments: New discoveries. Literature, art, archeology. Annual. 1980]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1981, pp. 94–106. (In Russ.)