The Cossacks and Other Stories
Tolstoy, Leo / Foote, Paul / Mcduff, David
Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army-the latest in our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In "The Cossacks, " Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured Russian whose experiences among the Cossac...