Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government.

Much of the novels and stories written by great Russian writer Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev include great attention to the description of the life of an ordinary person who does not particularly stand out from the crowd, trying to achieve everything by their own. In the result of this hard work puts the hero on top in spite of spent time and the main character always comes out the winner. It is impossible to mention romantic subtexts of many novels where the main characters despite the many difficulties and obstacles is ready to make the best efforts to solve them and stay together till the end. All the stories presented below will definitely affect deeply tempted readers de as the genre in which the author worked is more than true realism.