Départ Du Professeur Martens, Le

Description: An unpublished paperback novel by the most translated Estonian author of all time with The Fool of the Tzar. On the morning of a trip which will be his last, Frédéric Frommhold de Martens, world-renowned jurist of Estonian origin, expert in international law, advisor and servant of three tsars, takes stock of his life. Bitter meditation! If Professor Martens' career is apparently a success - esteemed by the greats of this world, he pulled Russia out of more than one bad situation and posterity will remember his name - has he ever, on the stage of History, played something other than utilities? An emblematic author of his country, often cited as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jaan Kross (1920-2007) recounts here, through the destiny of Professor Martens, Estonia in the second half of the 19th century.