Ḳozaḳn

By Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy

Subjects: History, Cossacks in fiction, Cossacks, Fiction, Translations into English, Russia in fiction

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.