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Taras Bulba
''Taras Bulba'' ((ロシア語:Тара́с Бу́льба); (ウクライナ語:Тара́с Бу́льба), ) is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.
The main character іs based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not аs exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol's later fiction. The story can be understood in the context of the Romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the Romantic ideal.
Initially published in 1835 as part of a collection of stories, it was criticised by Russian authorities for being "too Ukrainian". This, together with Gogol's own changing political and aesthetic views, led the author to rewrite and expand the story for a markedly different second edition published in 1842 and expressing greater Russian nationalist themes.
==Inspiration==
The character of Taras Bulba, the main hero of this novel is a composite of several historical personalities. It might be based on the real family history of an ancestor of Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay cossak ataman Okhrim Makukha from Starodub who killed his son, Nazar for switching to the Polish side during Khmelnytsky Uprising. Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay's uncle, Grigory Illich Miklouho-Maclay studied together with Gogol in Nizhyn Gymnasium and probably told the family legend to Gogol. 〔(How Makuha turned into Taras Bulba. )〕 Another possible inspiration was the hero of the folk song "The deeds of Sava Chaly" published by Mykhaylo Maksymovych about Cossack captain Sava Chaly (executed in 1741 after serving as a colonel in the private army of a Polish noble), whose killing was ordered by his own father for betraying the Ukrainian cause.
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