![]() ![]() ![]() It is a tale of bravado, derring-do, defence of the faith, chivalry, romance, honour and above all carousing. Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. ![]() ![]() 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) It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons Andriy and Ostap. Download cover art Download CD case insert Taras Bulba a Tale of the Cossacks Taras Bulba (Russian: « » Tarás Búlba) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (18091852). ![]()
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