Literary places in Zaporozhian Sich

Taras Bulba

Nikolai Gogol

Gogol's fierce romance of the Zaporozhian Cossacks follows the old warrior Taras Bulba and his sons Ostap and Andriy from their studies in Kyiv out onto the steppe, to the Cossack stronghold of the Sich on the Dnipro, and into a savage war against the Poles. The geography is the wide Ukrainian steppe: the academy at Kyiv, the island fastness of the Sich near present Zaporizhzhia, the besieged Polish town of Dubno, and the Dniester cliffs where Taras meets his end.

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