HE IS DAUNTLESS in battle, defiant in adversity and loyal to his comrades. With his last words, he foresees the coming of an invincible tsar. Taras Bulba, hero of Nikolai Gogol’s novella of the same ...

“Taras Bulba,” the most grandiose Ukrainian film-project of recent years, is finally reaching the big screen. In fact the movie was finished awhile ago but the decision was made to release it in time ...

Literature and Salman Khan seem to be as different as chalk and cheese. Who could have thought that Salman would actually be a part of a film that brings Russian literature to Bollywood? The actor’s ...

The new epic movie starts filming next month. The movie version of Mykola Gogol’s epic novel “Taras Bulba” is finally set to start filming Feb. 1 in Zaporozhye on Hortytsya Island. The talk about the ...

With the exception of two unfinished scores, a violin concerto and a symphony about the Danube, this disc collects together all the independent orchestral works of Janáček's maturity. Both the ...

Nikolai Gogol’s Taras Bulba, a bloody story of a Zaporozhian Cossack, has received much attention over the years. A continual sticking point lies in which version the reader chances upon. Two are in ...

For many minutes of the two hours it takes director J. Lee Thompson to put Gogol's tale of the legendary Cossack hero on the screen, the panorama of fighting men and horses sweeping across the wide ...