Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cossacks_(novel)

Translation of Казаки

Release date is 2003-12-01

Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

"The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852" by graf Leo Tolstoy is a novel published in 1863. Disenchanted with privileged Russian society, nobleman Dmitry Olenin joins the army and travels to the Caucasus, seeking authenticity among the Cossack people. He befriends an old hunter, adopts local customs, and falls in love with Maryanka—a young woman already promised to another. As he immerses himself in this unfamiliar world, Olenin confronts profound questions about happiness, self-sacrifice, and the nature of belonging in a culture not his own. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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