![]() ![]() The character of Taras Bulba, the main hero of this novel, is a composite of several historical personalities. The 1842 text has been described by Victor Erlich as a "paragon of civic virtue and a force of patriotic edification", contrasting the rhetoric of the 1835 version with its "distinctly Cossack jingoism". ![]() The story was initially published in 1835 as part of the Mirgorod collection of short stories, but a much expanded version appeared in 1842 with some differences in the storyline. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to the Zaporizhian Sich (the Zaporizhian Cossack headquarters, located in southern Ukraine) where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland. ![]() It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons Andriy and Ostap. Taras Bulba ( Russian: «Тарас Бульба» Tarás Búl'ba) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). ![]()
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