Очарованный странник by Nikolai Leskov

A picaresque, episodic first-person narrative that follows a charismatic itinerant whose restless life carries him through Russian towns and foreign ports, bringing him into contact with a wide gallery of people—peasants and priests, thieves and artists, lovers and charlatans—and entangling him in episodes of passion, deceit, spiritual struggle and moral ambiguity, so that his reminiscences become a reflection on fate, conscience and the search for meaning in a changing world.

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