The Cossacks [sound recording] / Leo Tolstoy ; [translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude].
Record details
- ISBN: 0786173777 :
- ISBN: 9780786173778
- Physical Description: 6 sound discs (ca. 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact disc. Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Thorn. |
Summary, etc.: | Olenin, a young Russian aristocrat finds himself as a Russian army officer, serving at a remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. Here among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, is the place where Olenin will find his love, a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is she is promised to a Cossack warrior. |
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Subject: | Russia > History > Nicholas I, 1825-1855 > Fiction. |
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Summary
The Cossacks
Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised to a Cossack warrior. In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is the dilemma of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.