Cossack Tales
Before Gogol became the haunted genius of 'Dead Souls,' he wrote these wild, shimmering tales rooted in the folklore of his Ukrainian childhood. Here is a world where devils steal the moon, beautiful girls ride through the sky on broomsticks, and Cossack warriors drink, fight, and love with ferocious intensity. The stories pulse with a peasant culture at once brutal and beautiful, where a blacksmith's apprentice might win the girl of his dreams through courage and cunning, or where the devil himself meddles in Christmas Eve festivities. The collection reaches its climax in 'Taras Bulba,' a swashbuckling epic about a legendary Cossack leader who takes his two sons to war against the Poles, testing their courage in battles that blaze across the steppes. Gogol's prose crackles with humor, folklore, and an irrepressible love for this world of hardy, violent, deeply alive people. These are not gentle fairy tales. They are rough, funny, bloody, and full of life.
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“It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.””
— Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
“Taras Bulba:I brought you into this world and I can take you out.Taras:My son, why? Why?Andrei Bulba:I did what I had to do.Taras:From the day I plunged you in the river to give you life, I loved you as I loved the steppes. You were my pride! I gave you life. It is on me to take it away from you.Taras:Put your faith in your sword and your sword in the Pole.””
— Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
“Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is”
— Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
“I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.””
— Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
“Он повернулся в другую сторону и увидел женщину, казалось, застывшую и окаменевшую в каком-то быстром движении. Казалось, как будто вся фигура ее хотела броситься к нему и вдруг остановилась. И он остался также изумленным пред нею. Не такою воображал он ее видеть: это была не она, не та, которую он знал прежде; ничего не было в ней похожего на ту, но вдвое прекраснее и чудеснее была она теперь, чем прежде. Тогда было в ней что-то неоконченное, недовершенное, теперь это было произведение, которому художник дал последний удар кисти. Та была прелестная, ветреная девушка; эта была красавица”
— Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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