The Cossacks

Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised to a Cossack warrior.

In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is the dilemma of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.

© 2006 Alcazar AudioWorks (ספר מוקלט): 9781483081847
© 2014 Interactive Media (ספר דיגיטלי): 9781910558164

תורגם על ידי: Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

תאריך פרסום

ספר מוקלט: 1 בינואר 2006
ספר דיגיטלי: 15 בספטמבר 2014