Publisher's Synopsis
A novel about Dmitri Orshanow, a medical student in turn-of-the-century St Petersburg who is restless and disenchanted with his life. Unable to find fulfilment either in anarchism or in a succession of joyless love affairs, he eventually decides to join the Foreign Legion.;This book was first published in France in 1903 and coincides with Annette Kobak's major new biography of Isabelle Eberhardt.
