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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 (the Zaporizhian Cossack headquarters, located in southern Ukraine), where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland

Die tragische Geschichte des Kosakenhauptmanns Taras Bulba entführt uns in die Kriegswehen Russlands im sechzehnten Jahrhundert. In der Familie Taras, der einen Sohn tötet, um sein Volk zu retten und die Hinrichtung des anderen nicht verhindern kann, vollzieht sich jener Zyklus, der seit Menschengedenken das Leben bestimmt: Geburt und Liebe, Tod und Trauer.

Taras Bulba 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 Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls).

A Word Is Not A Sparrow is a diverse anthology of stories set amid Russian repression through the centuries; personal narrator testimony about the impact in America of immigrant grandparents from Ukraine and elsewhere; powerful fables and allegories that deliver universal messages about displacement, migration, and human connection; and classic Cossack folk tales that are a touchstone of Ukrainian culture. Listen as we let these words fly out around the world.

"Taras Bul'ba" - povest' Nikolaya Vasil'evicha Gogolya, vhodit v tsikl "Mirgorod". Sobytiya knigi proiskhodyat v srede zaporozhskih kazakov, v pervoy polovine XVII veka. Istoriya kazatskogo vosstaniya 1637-1638 godov, podavlennogo getmanom N. Pototskim, legla v osnovu povesti N. V. Gogolya "Taras Bul'ba" i dala konkretnye primery dramaticheskih sudeb geroev. Ispolnyaet Afanasiy Kochetkov.

Nikolay Vasil'evich Gogol' - velikiy russkiy pisatel'. V sbornik voshli dva proizvedeniya iz cikla Mirgorod: "Starosvetskie pomeshchiki" i "Taras Bul'ba".

This audiobook contains the acclaimed story "Taras Bulba", by the great Russian writer Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852). A beloved classic, "Taras Bulba" addresses the issues of honor and betrayal, and the moral responsibility people bear toward their loved ones in times of crisis.