"Taras Bulba" is a short historical novel by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol from the series "Mirgorod".
The plot of the novel concerns the history of Zaporozhian Cossacks. The main character is Taras Buljba, an old Cossack, who, with his sons Andrija and Ostap, sets out to fight against the Polish nobility and defend Orthodoxy.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
Childhood (1852) is the first book of an autobiographical trilogy (with Adolescence and Youth), where Tolstoy explores the world of childhood through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Nikolinka Irtenjev – innocence, joys, sorrows and first traumas.
The novel is set in a Cossack community on the Don River during collectivization in the Soviet Union. The work, divided into two parts, follows the dramatic changes in the village of Gremyachi Log as the Bolsheviks introduce collective farms, which provok