Nicolas Gogol

Taras Bulba is a romanticized short historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Ukrainian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras sons studied at the Kyiv Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against the Polish nobles.