![]() It is a tale of bravado, derring-do, defence of the faith, chivalry, romance, honour and above all carousing. Author: Nicolai Gogol Stock Reference Number: 11770 Series: Classics Illustrated Joint European Series (JES) Sub-series: Classics Illustrated JES Facsimiles. The story concerns the lives and deaths of Cossack colonel Taras Bulba and his two sons Ostap and Andriy who have just graduated from the Kiev Academy. ![]() It was a time when men were men and sheep were scared and those men were Cossacks. It was an ill-defined wild border land whose borders were subject to change and whose nominal rulers had allowed it to become a nuisance to them that it might also be a nuisance to the armies of their enemies and an obstacle to their advances. ![]() Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukraine, a name which means something like “frontier” or “marches”. ![]() Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851 - 1928) Download cover art Download CD case insert Taras Bulba a Tale of the Cossacks ![]()
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