Taras Bulba

"Taras Bulba" of Nikolai Gogol is a great historical epopey, which has become one of the most powerful and dramatic pages in Russian classical literature. This is a monumental, angry and intriguing story about the Cossack volley, the unbreakable national spirit, the cruel war and the terrible personal tragedy of the father, placed before the choice between faithfulness to the Fatherland and love to the son. The story develops in the 17th century, in the burial era of the opposition of the Zaporozhsk Cossacks and the Polish nobleship. Old Colonel Taras Bulba meets his sons, Ostapa and Andria, who returned after their studies in the Kiev bourse. Wishing to make them real warriors, Taras wins his sons to the Zaporozhskaya Seč - a burial cottage of military nobleship, strict laws and unreliable breakthrough. Soon the Cossack troops go to the march to Poland and settle the fortress of Dubno. Here is a rock drama: the younger son of Andrew, crazyly in love with a beautiful Polish puppy, deceives the Cossack friendship and goes to the side of the enemy. The elder, Ostap, shows the wonders of courage, remaining faithful to the oath until the end. Taras Bulbe is going to pass through unhuman trials, to survive the loss of both sons and to become the legend of this miserable war. Gogol managed to create an epic plate of incredible artistic power. In this book, the irresistible poetry of the description of the endless Ukrainian steep is neighboring to the severe and bloody truth of the war, where personal human feelings are stuck in the presses of severe military duty and honor. Who to read: Lovers of large-scale historical novels, strong and uncompromising characters, as well as everyone who wants to feel all the power, poetry and tragedy of the Gogolov word.