Tolstoy rabotal nad Kazakami pochti desyat let. Kak i mnogie drugie ego proizvedeniya, povest avtobiografichna, v ee osnove lezhat kavkazskie vospominaniya L.N.Tolstogo, istoriya ego nerazdelennoy lyubvi k kazachke, zhivshey v Starogladkovskoy stanitse. On izbiraet traditsionnyy dlya romanticheskoy literatury syuzhet: lyubov ohlazhdennogo, razocharovannogo zhiznyu geroya-begletsa iz opostylevshego mira tsivilizatsii k estestvennoy i strastnoy geroine. Molodoy dvoryanin Dmitriy Olenin tyanetsya k estestvennoy prostote, stihiynoy zhizni kazakov, no ostaetsya im chuzhd. Interesy, vospitanie, sotsialnoe polozhenie otdalyayut ego ot zhiteley kazachey stanitsy. I krasavitsa kazachka Maryana predpochitaet emu besshabashnogo kazaka Lukashku.
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"While not, I think, typical Tolstoy, it still comes across as pleasant and bucolic. A quaint tale of male rivalry over the hand of the idealized Cossack woman. Although the end seemed a bit rushed, I enjoyed this work as a whole. " — Bill (4 out of 5 stars)
"While not, I think, typical Tolstoy, it still comes across as pleasant and bucolic. A quaint tale of male rivalry over the hand of the idealized Cossack woman. Although the end seemed a bit rushed, I enjoyed this work as a whole. "
" It's a nice story. Just that. Short book, nice ending. The nice touch from Tolstoi is that what he writes is what he lived, so everything is told through experience. "
" The Cossacks is the best. Also everything by Leo Tolstoy is the best. "
" Think living on the american frontier was tough? Try Asia. Go ahead and fall in love with a girl at a time when maurauding bands would kill you just for the fun of it. "
" I read it as a kid and the story still lingers in my head. "
" Great book about leaving the busy life of the city and falling in love with nature and the slow life. "
" James Byrd Jr did not drag this bad.... Too soon? Well it was seriously that terrible. "
" Affluent, aimless 20 something goes to find himself among the Cossacks, characterized in the noble savage tradition. "
" Arg, Tolstoy is a cad! Horrible book, horrible ending. I think I'm going to give up on him unless this book was an aberration. "
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