The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852

The novel “The Cossacks” Originally called “ “Young Manhood” is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise. Turgenev said at the time that it was his favorite work by Tolstoy.