page_title: The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea
hierarchical_section_title: The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea
caption_attribution_description: 1916 title page
context_page_description: "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea", The Tale of the Crosseyed Lefthander from Tula and the Steel Flea or simply Levsha, sometimes called The Lefthander, Lefty, The Steel Flea or The Left-handed Craftsman is a well-known 1881 skaz by Nikolai Leskov. Styled as a folk tale, it tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea they'd made with horseshoes and inscriptions on them.
context_section_description: "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (Russian: Сказ о тульском косом Левше и о стальной блохе, Skaz o Tulskom kosom Levshe i o stalnoy Blokhe), The Tale of the Crosseyed Lefthander from Tula and the Steel Flea or simply Levsha (Russian: Левша, left-handed), sometimes called The Lefthander, Lefty, The Steel Flea or The Left-handed Craftsman is a well-known 1881 skaz (story) by Nikolai Leskov. Styled as a folk tale, it tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula (traditionally a center of the Russian armaments industry) who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea they'd made with horseshoes and inscriptions on them.
caption: 1916 title page
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