Levsha: The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea DVD theorbo The Tula Tea Room at

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Levsha: The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea DVD theorbo The Tula Tea Room atDrawn from the beloved mid 19th century novella by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov, Levsha: The Tale of a Cross Eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea relates the story of two tsars, a curmudgeonly general, and a poor but astonishingly deft young gunsmith from the small town of Tula. Described as a masterpiece of Gogolesque comedy in which an illiterate smith outwits the most advanced British craftsmen, the tale of Levsha has been called "an eternal