&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Cossack_Litovchenko.jpeg) Portrait of a Cossack by Alexander Litovchenko | |
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
|---|---|
| Original title | Казаки (Kozaky) |
| Translator | Eugene Schuyler (1878), Peter Constantine (2004) |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | The Russian Messenger |
Publication date | 1863 |
| Publication place | Russia |
Published in English | 1878 (Scribner's) |
| Pages | 161 p. (Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-679-64291-9 |
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The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood.[1] Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy.[2] Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853.[3] In August 1857, after having reread the Iliad, he vowed to completely rewrite The Cossacks.[4] In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts.[5] The novel was published in 1863, the same year his first child was born.[2]