5/20/2023 0 Comments Gogol taras bulbaThe hero of the story, Taras Bulba, is a Cossack headman, who in order to complete his sons’ education, takes them to fight against the catholic Poles. The story is full of Ukrainian words, folklore and Cossack customs. When everything to do with Little Russia, as Ukraine was called back then, became hugely popular there, he cleverly wrote Taras Bulba. Gogol was an Ukrainian with Cossack blood running through his veins living in Saint Petersburg. The industrial revolution sparked an interest in all things pure, natural, past and authentic. Lermontov and Pushkin are the most famous writers of this period. Romanticism was the main literary movement in Russia from the end of the eighteenth century until halfway into the nineteenth century.
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