Taras Bulba

Nikolai Gogol

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

An old Cossack carries his sons off to war, kills one for betraying their people for love, loses the other to a hero's death, and meets his own end at the stake, still crying to his men to fight on. Gogol's fierce epic.

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