![]() ![]() (summary by SimonSG)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. It is a tale of bravado, derring-do, defence of the faith, chivalry, romance, honour and above all carousing. 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”. As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, Taras. ![]() Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. LibriVox recording of Taras Bulba a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. The First New Translation in Forty Years. ![]()
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