Taras Bulba and Other Tales

"...the majority were of the species who, all the world over, look on the world and at everything that goes on in it and merely scratch their noses."
--- Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba and Other Tales

Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Taras Bulba
St. John’s Eve
The Cloak
How The Two Ivans Quarrelled
The Mysterious Portrait
The Calash

Taras Bulba (1962 film)

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical short story by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

Taras Bulba is a 1962 film loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short novel, Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner in the title role, and Tony Curtis as his son, Andrei, leaders of a Cossack clan on the Ukrainian steppes. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The story line of the film is considerably different from that of Gogol's novel, although it is closer to his expanded 1842 (pro-Russian Imperial) edition than his original (pro-Ukrainian) version of 1835