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    The Cossacks
    The Cossacks
    The Cossacks
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Cossacks

    Written by Leo Tolstoy

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and other classics of Russian literature.

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