Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg. He published his first piece of fiction in 1862 in The Northern Bee, and continued on to write and publish many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), The Sealed Angel (1873), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and Lefty(1882). He died in February 1895.
Un bateau fend les vagues sur le lac Lagoda. À bord, les voyageurs ont le regard tourné vers un mystérieux colosse en habit de moine qui fait route avec eux. Pour répondre à leur curiosité, ce dernier raconte aux voyageurs les aventures qui l'ont amené à s'engager dans les ordres...
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