Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical short story by Nikolai Gogol.
The main characters based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not exaggerated or grote.
The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.
It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap.
Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical short story by Nikolai Gogol