The Cossacks: A Fiction and Literature Classic By Leo Tolstoy! AAA+++

The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood.[1] Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, Turgenev calling it his favorite work by Tolstoy.[2] Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853.[3] In August 1857, after having reread Iliad, he vowed to completely rewrite The Cossacks.[4] In February 1862, after having lost badly at cards he finished the novel to help pay his debts.[5] The novel was published in 1863, the same year his first child was born.[2]