Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks

LibriVox recording of Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. (Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.) Read in English by SimonSG Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukraine, a name which means something like “frontier” or “marches”. It was an ill-defined wild border land whose borders were subject to change and whose nominal rulers had allowed it to become a nuisance to them that it might also be a nuisance to the armies of their enemies and an obstacle to their advance