Taras Bulba
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Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his 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 where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.
Illustration for the novel by Pyotr Sokolov, 1861
Meeting of Taras Bulba with sons. Illustration by Taras Shevchenko (1842)
Taras Bulba Memorial in Keleberda, Ukraine
Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (early 1840s)
Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector (1836)
Commemorative plaque on his house in Rome
One of several portraits of Gogol by Fyodor Moller (1840)