His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business men.

[1] From 1882 to 1905, Leykin was the publisher and editor of the comic magazine Fragments.

Nikolay Chekhov provided centerfold and cover pictures.

Leykin was Russia's most prolific author of comic sketches, which were widely read.

He drew major writers to Fragments, including Nikolai Leskov.