Nikolai Leykin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin (; December 19, 1841 – January 19, 1906) was a Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher.

Biography Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business men.

From 1882 to 1905, Leykin was the publisher and editor of the comic magazine Fragments. It was in this magazine that Anton Chekhov began his literary career. Chekhov contributed over two hundred stories to Fragments from 1882 to 1887.