Our People Abroad

Nikolai Leikin (1841–1906) — an extraordinary St. Petersburg writer-humorist, journalist, and publisher. He was widely known to the Russian reader in the second half of the 19th century. The work "Our People Abroad" is one of the most famous works of the writer, which has been reprinted multiple times. The plot is based on a light and cheerful story about the trip of merchant Nikolai Ivanovich Ivanov and his wife Glafira Semyonovna to France for the famous World Exhibition in Paris, for which the Eiffel Tower was built. On the way, the heroes repeatedly find themselves in comical situations and misunderstandings — the humor of Nikolai Leikin is indeed funny and relevant to this day. The first book in the series about the travels of Nikolai and Glafira Ivanov (France).