Who was the Russian author of 'Taras Bulba' and 'Dead Souls'?
Taras Bulba recalling the great feats of Taras and his unwavering Cossack spirit. The original 1835 edition reflects the Ukrainian context of the story. In response to critics who called his "The Government Inspector" "anti-Russian", and under pressure from the Russian government that considered "Taras Bulba" too Ukrainian, Gogol decided to revise the book. The 1842 edition was expanded by three chapters and rewritten to include Russian nationalist themes in keeping with the official tsarist ideology at the time, as well as the author's changing political and aesthetic views (later manifested in "Dead Souls" and "Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends").
Korchma Taras Bulba A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga, providing all organization and financing the Moscow representative office of the publishing house. * Vladimir Putin visited “Korchma Taras Bulba” in Moscow in 2013. When leaving he did not refuse to drink one for the road (in Russian – “na pososhok”, in Ukrainian “na konya”). Marathon club “Korchma Taras Bulba” was founded in 2004. For the interior of “Korchma Taras Bulba” designers used wooden furniture, embroidered towels, homespun carpets and runners, tablecloths and valances, as well as elements of dead hedge, greybeards, rouses and other items which are typical for Ukrainian rural huts. The interior decoration was designed by