Download or read book Taras Bulba and Other Tales (Annotated) written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taras Bulba (Russian: Тарас Бульба; Tarás Búl'ba) 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.Introduction by John Cournos.Includes: "St. John's Eve", "The Cloak", "How the Two Ivans Quarrelled", "The Mysterious Portrait" &"The Calash".