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The Cossacks

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1863
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 170

A bored young Moscow nobleman goes to a Cossack village in the Caucasus certain the simple life will remake him. He falls for a village girl, offers her everything he has, is refused, and rides away exactly as he came.

Happiness is being with nature, seeing her, and conversing with her.
The Cossacks, Leo Tolstoy

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