

Cossacks themselves, redistributed the territory into military districts. Itwas not a standing army, no one saw it; but in case of war and generaluprising, it required a week, and no more, for every man to appear onhorseback, fully armed, receiving only one ducat from the king;...



Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he...

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [O.S. 20 March] 1809 - 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, in works such as "The Nose",...

Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he...

Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he...

Nikolai Gogol was talented enough to catch the notice of not just his contemporaries but his government. Considered one of Russia's greatest writers during his day, Gogol's Dead Souls satirized the corruption of the Russian government enough that it forced him into exile. Dead...
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"...the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses." --- Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba and Other Tales Taras Bulba and Other Tales Taras Bulba St. John's Eve The Cloak How The Two Ivans...


Taras Bulba and Other Tales is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, a prominent Russian writer of the 19th century. The book includes five stories, each depicting different aspects of Russian life and culture.The title story, Taras Bulba, is a historical tale set in...


"Turn round, my boy How ridiculous you look What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that?"With such words did old Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at the Royal Seminary of Kief, and had now returned...

"Turn round, my boy How ridiculous you look What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that?"With such words did old Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at the Royal Seminary of Kief, and had now returned...

"Turn round, my boy How ridiculous you look What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that?"With such words did old Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at the Royal Seminary of Kief, and had now returned...

Taras Bulba And Other Tales is a collection of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol, one of the most prominent Russian writers of the 19th century. The book includes the title story, Taras Bulba, which is a historical novella set in the 16th century and tells the story of a...


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Taras Bulba is a magnificent story portraying the life of the Ukrainian Cossacks who lived by the Dnieper River in the sixteenth century. Taras Bulba is an old and hardened warrior who feels a little rusty from lack of action. When his two sons return from school at Kiev, he...