La Lady Macbeth du district de Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov introduces the first female serial killer in Russian literature, and one of the first heroines of this literature to transgress sexual taboos. Beneath the archaic surface of the oral tale, this text, frequently adapted in the twentieth century, is highly subversive.
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