Cossacks, The by Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocrat in love with a Cossack girl. This text was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one of the finest in the language. Additional proof-listening was done by mim@can & katzes.