The novella was included into the series "mirgorod" and became one of the favourite Nikolai Gogol's works. The work bases itself on the Cossack chronicles, historical investigations, and especially - folk songs about the fearless Cossacks. Having reconsidered it creatively, the author made the immortal figures of Taras Bulba and his sons on the background of the heroic epoch of the Cossack rebelli...