# The Cossacks

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- Book: [The Cossacks](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy/the-cossacks) ([The Cossacks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy/the-cossacks.md))
- Authors: [Lev Tolstoi](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-504-8
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2006-02-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This 1862 novel, in a vibrant new translation by Peter Constantine, is Tolstoy’s semiautobiographical story of young Olenin, a wealthy, disaffected Muscovite who joins the Russian army and travels...