02818cam a22003733u 4500 78574 UtSlPG 20260610134825.0 m cr n 260607r20261903utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fi iso639-1 PG Veresaev, V. V. (Vikentiĭ Vikentʹevich), 1867-1945 Bez dorogi. Finnish Ilman tietä Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Translation of: Без дороги (Bez dorogi). Release date is 2026-04-29 Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen "Ilman tietä" by V. V. Veresaev is a novel written in the late 19th century. It presents the diary of a disillusioned Russian zemstvo doctor who searches for meaning amid generational upheaval, growing social distrust, and a looming cholera epidemic; his strained exchanges with the earnest Natasha and his frontline medical work frame the struggle between ideals and harsh reality. The focus is psychological and social: conscience versus fatigue, duty versus fear, and the fragile bond between educated reformers and the people they hope to serve. At the start of the novel, the doctor returns to a country estate and reflects on three bleak years of inner paralysis, then tries to rest, even as Natasha presses him for a guiding purpose he cannot honestly give. News of cholera draws him to a provincial city, where warnings of anti-doctor violence clash with his resolve. After a charged night—music, a moonlit boat, and his confession that he has “no road”—Natasha recoils, though she later gives him an ardent farewell before he departs. In Slesarsk’s Tshemerovka (Saretshje), he sets up a cholera barrack with a phlegmatic feldsher, meets sullen hostility, rumors, and threats, and lies awake fearing a night attack. The first confirmed case (a furniture maker, Tsherkasov) forces him to win trust by sharing water from the patient’s cup; he saves the man but cannot compel the family to allow disinfection, a failure that gnaws at him. As more mild cases appear, he speaks with everyone, keeps the ward open to visitors, and slowly gains a toehold against panic and suspicion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Helsinki: Kustantaja tuntematon, 1903 Physicians -- Fiction Diary fiction Cholera -- Fiction Russian fiction -- Translations into Finnish Epidemics -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78574 119292 119292