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The Cossacks

by Leo Tolstoy

2025141 pagesReadings
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Weary of the hollowness of privilege, Dmitry Andreich Olenin, a Russian aristocrat, enlists and rides south to the Caucasus. In the foothills he meets the Cossack hunters, growers, and fighters whom he imagines to be at one with the land. Among them he learns the river's rhythms: he hunts, he drinks, he falls in love with the proud Maryána and admires the bold Lukashka. What begins as escape becomes an experiment in living by courage, work, and kinship rather than rank. Yet the closer Olenin draws, the clearer the distance becomes: custom, loyalty, and war mark a line he cannot cross. Tolstoy's early masterpiece pairs luminous landscape with exact psychology, asking whether an outsider can ever truly belong and what is forfeited when romance meets reality.

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Published2025
Length141 pages
CategoryClassics
FormatsPaperback
SubjectsLiterary Fiction, Classics
ISBN-139786275100935
PublisherReadings
List priceRs450
Stocked byReadings, Lahore
Sold at Readings13 copies

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