![]() Taras Bulba, the short novel by Nikolai Gogol, has two versions. Taras Bulba (1835), the greatest chivalric story of the 19th century, is an epic tale chronicling the lives of Cossack warriors. The glorious novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was in fact Ukrainian by birth, but Russian by literary culture. ![]() A colorful and spectacular historical epic in the best of the then-dying old Hollywood tradition, the 1962 movie is probably the only exposure that the American public at large had to Ukrainian history, and in this alone it is a valuable work. Andrey betrays the Cossacks for the love of a beautiful Polish woman and Taras kills him. ![]() Taras Bulba is the story of a Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his sons Ostap and Andrey. ![]()
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