Novel · 1863
The Cossacks
Казаки
A young nobleman runs away to the Caucasus to find a truer life — and falls for a Cossack girl.
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Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910 · Russia As an Amazon Associate, The Put’ earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you.
Dmitry Olenin, a bored young nobleman from Moscow, travels to a Cossack village in the Caucasus hoping to start his life over. Among mountains, vineyards and proud, self-reliant villagers he falls in love with a Cossack girl, Maryanka — and discovers how little he truly fits in.
Based on Tolstoy’s own years in the Caucasus, it is full of landscape and of a young man’s longing for a simpler, truer way to live.
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