Title: Ḳozaḳn
Subtitle: a Ḳaṿḳazer geshikhṭe
First published: January 1, 1982
Description: Called by Ivan Turgenev ‘the finest and most perfect production of Russian literature’, this short novel describes the efforts of a young noble, who leaves his home in Moscow and travels to the Caucasus in an attempt to live a simpler life. He becomes accepted by the Cossacks but ultimately fails to find what he has been searching for.
Subjects: Fiction, Cossacks in fiction, Cossacks, History, Russia in fiction, Translations into English
Places: Russia, The Caucasus
People: Cossacks, Chechens, Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910)
Time periods: Nicholas I, 1825-1855