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A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy's experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years. His nave hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with... Read Full Overview

This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy's semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels to the untamed frontier of the Caucasus in search of a more authentic life. While... Read Full Overview

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Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire--died November 7 November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author,... Read Full Overview

"Les Cosaques" de Leon Tolstoi. ecrivain russe (1828-1910)."

Olyenin, a young Russian aristocrat, decides to leave the society of Moscow and enter the army as a junior officer for service in the Caucasus. There are a number of reasons for his decision. He squandered a large part of his estate, he is bored with what he considers an empty... Read Full Overview

The Cossacks V1: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852 is a novel written by the renowned Russian author Leo Tolstoy and was first published in 1878. The story is set in the Caucasus Mountains, which is a region located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The novel is a romantic... Read Full Overview

Leo N. Tolstoi: Die Kosaken. Eine Erz hlung aus dem Kaukasus Kazaki. Erstdruck 1863 als Fortsetzungsgeschichte in der Zeitschrift Der russische Bote. bersetzt von August Scholz, Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1923. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria... Read Full Overview