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"This 1862 novel, in a 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. Quartered with his regiment in a Cossack village, Olenin revels in the glories of nature and the rough strength of the Cossacks and Chechens. Smitten by his unrequited love for a local girl, Maryanka, Olenin has a profound but ultimately short-lived spiritual awakening. Try as he may to assimilate, he remains an awkward outsider and his long search for a more enlightened and purposeful existence comes to naught."--BOOK JACKET.
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Russian literature, Translations into English, Fiction, History, Cossacks, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), CossacksPlaces
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The Cossacks: and, A prisoner in the Caucasus
August 31, 2001, Raduga Publisher
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The Cossacks: Sevastopol, The invaders, and other stories
1970, Books for Libraries Press
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0836934164 9780836934168
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The Cossacks: a tale of the Caucasus in the year 1852
1888, Thomas Y. Crowell & co.
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The Cossacks: a tale of the Caucasus in 1852
1887, W.S. Gottsberger
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The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) 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 writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In August 1857, after having reread the Iliad, he vowed to completely rewrite The Cossacks. In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts. The novel was published in 1863, the same year his first child was born.
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