The Cossacks
work by Tolstoy
Also known as: “Kazaki”
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discussed in biography
- In Leo Tolstoy: First publications of Leo Tolstoy
…dominates Tolstoy’s novel Kazaki (1863; The Cossacks). The hero of this work, the dissolute and self-centered aristocrat Dmitry Olenin, enlists as a cadet to serve in the Caucasus. Living among the Cossacks, he comes to appreciate a life more in touch with natural and biological rhythms. In the novel’s central…
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