One night, Andriy is awoken by a Tartar woman who is the servant of the Polish girl he was in love with. They besiege the city of Dubno, cutting it off from food supplies. The Cossacks begin a military campaign against the Poles. Yankel, a Jewish merchant, is saved by the intervention of Bulba. In retaliation, the Cossacks throw Jewish merchants into the Dnieper River. Later, a group of Cossacks arrives at the camp, claiming they were defeated and persecuted by the Poles, who the Jews aided. Bulba tries to rally the Cossacks to fight the Turks but is informed that the Cossacks have signed a peace treaty with the Sultan. His wife is reluctant to part with her husband and children but is forced to accept his decision.īulba, Andriy, and Ostap arrive at the Cossack camp at the Setch. Soon, Bulba decides to take his sons to war against Poland. However, she left the city with her father, causing them to be separated. While studying in Kiev, Andriy fell in love with the daughter of a Polish noble. Ostap, the older son, is the more boisterous of the two, while Andriy is an introvert. His two sons, Ostap and Andriy, return from an Orthodox seminary in Kiev. He has a fierce and headstrong temperament, like many members of his race. Taras Bulba is an old Cossack who lives beyond the Zaporozhe or the falls of the Dnieper River. Taras Bulba (1936) Comic Strip by Nikolai Navoev 2.
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