The Cossacks

Leo Tolstoy

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

A jaded young Moscow nobleman joins the army on the Caucasus frontier and tries to lose himself in the wild, free life of the Cossacks, and learns he can never truly belong. Tolstoy's early novel of nature and self.

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