Taras Bulba (story)

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Taras Bulba
painting "Death of Andrej"
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by Pyotr Sokolow , 1861


Taras Bulba ( Russian Тарас Бульба ) is a short story ( Powest ) by the Russian writer Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol . It appeared in 1835 as part of the anthology Mirgorod .

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The story takes place in the Ukraine in the first half of the 17th century and tells the story of the old Zaporozhye Cossacks Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andrei and Ostap, the first at the Academy in Kiev to study, and then later in the Zaporozhye Sich other To join Cossacks in revolt against Poland . During the siege of Dubno , his son Andrej defected to the opposing Poles because of a girl and was then shot by Taras Bulba. After the Poles capture Bulba, they burn him alive.

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Film adaptations

  • Tarass Boulba, French feature film from 1936
  • In 1962 the novel was filmed with Yul Brynner in the title role .
  • Taras Bulba, Russian feature film from 2009

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Others

Taras Bulba monument in Keleberda

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  • Nikolaus Gogol: Taras Bulba. Translated from the Russian by Rudolf Kaßner. With 30 woodcuts by Karl Rössing . Vienna, Rikola Verlag, 1922
  • Nicolai Gogol: Taras Bulba. Novella . Transfer from Karl Nötzel, Insel-Bücherei, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, approx. 1920
  • Nikolaus Gogol: Taras Bulba. A Cossack novel . German version by Franz Herwig, Verlag Josef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1924
  • Nikolai Gogol: Taras Bulba . Translation Ilse Krämer . Cologne: Olten Hegner, 1966
  • Nikolai Gogol: Taras Bulba . Munich, Winkler, 1981. ISBN 353806203X

Web links

Commons : Taras Bulba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on Taras Bulba in the Encyclopædia Britannica (English)