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«Tupeynyiy hudozhnik» — rasskaz russkogo pisatelya Nikolaya Leskova, napisannyiy v 1883 godu. Sobyitiya rasskaza proishodyat v krepostnom teatre orlovskogo grafa Kamenskogo, izvestnogo svoey zhestokostyu. Istoriyu tupeynogo hudozhnika (parikmahera) Arkadiya rasskazyivaet byivshaya aktrisa orlovskogo krepostnogo teatra, a seychas nyanka mladshego brata rasskazchika Lyubov Onisimovna. Aktrisa i parikmaher byili vlyublenyi drug v druga, no «svidaniya s glazu na glaz byili sovershenno nevozmozhnyi i dazhe nemyislimyi»: romanyi aktrisam ne pozvolyalis. Arkadiy reshaet uvezti vozlyublennuyu, uznav, chto graf okazyivaet ey osobyie znaki raspolozheniya i hochet sdelat svoey lyubovnitsey, odnako v dome svyaschennika ih nastigaet pogonya. Lyubu posle neudachnoy popyitki suitsida otpravlyayut na skotnyiy dvor, sochtya sumasshedshey, a Arkadiya — v soldatyi. Posle neskolkih let sluzhbyi Arkadiy, poluchiv «ofitserskiy chin i blagorodnoe zvanie», vozvraschaetsya v Oryol, chtobyi vyikupit Lyubu u grafa, no nochyu ego grabit i ubivaet dvornik.