Taras Bulba and Other Tales : St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait & The Calash

Translated by C. J. Hogarth. Introduction By John Cournos.

Taras Bulba is a romanticized short historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kyiv Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against the Polish nobles.

Taras Bulba is Gogol’s longest short story. The work is classi...