a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852).
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Is Taras Bulba a real person?
Taras Dmytrovych Borovets (Ukrainian: Тарас Дмитрович Борове́ць; March 9, 1908 – May 15, 1981) was a Ukrainian resistance leader during World War II. He is better known as Taras Bulba-Borovets after his nom de guerre Taras Bulba. His pseudonym is taken from the eponymous novel by the Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol.
Was Taras Bulba a Cossack?
Set on the Ukrainian steppe, “Taras Bulba” is an epic tale of the lives of Cossack warriors. The narrative follows the exploits of an aging Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons.
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Is Taras Bulba a good movie?
Taras Bulba is a decent film. It is about Taras who has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places.
Why did Gogol write Taras Bulba?
According to sociologist and historian Prof. Vilho Harle, Taras Bulba, published only four years after the rebellion, was a part of this anti-Polish propaganda effort. Inadvertently, Gogol's accomplishment became "an anti-Polish novel of high literary merit, to say nothing about lesser writers."
Here was a people whose whole existence was passed in activity, and which, even if nature had made it inactive, was compelled to go forward to great affairs and ...