Taras Bulba - Paperback

by Nikolai Gogol (Author)

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to the Zaporizhian Sich (located in what is now southern Ukraine), where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.