Taras Bulba

Taraş Bulba is a romanticized historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. İt telis the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taraş Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taraş' sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on an epic journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine, vvhere they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.Taraş Bulba is Gogol's longest short story. The work is non-fictional in nature with characters that are not exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol's later work, though his characterizations of Cossacks are said by some scholars to be a bit exaggerated. This story can be understood in the context of the romantic nationaüsm movement in literatüre, vvhich developed around a historical ethnic culture vvhich meets the romantic ideal.