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Review of The Cossacks and Other Stories: Stories of Sevastopol, the Cossacks, Hadji Murat (Penguin Classics) by A Reader
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-31 23:33:39.
(Language: English)
  
Life difficulties last week sent me running to the pages of classic Russian literature. And this one sent me to Tolstoy's "The Cossacks." I love the pace of a good Russian story...and this one didn't let me down. I was hooked from the beautiful opening paragraph and felt my reality melt away as I sank into a new one:"All is quiet in Moscow. The squeak of wheels is seldom heard in the snow-covered street. There are no lights left in the windows and the street lamps have been extinguished. Only the sound of bells, borne over the city from the church towers, suggests the approach of morning. The streets are deserted...An old woman passes by on her way to church, where a few wax candles burn with red light reflected on the gilt mountings of the icons..." This was a story that illustrates to the reader that no matter how one may long for something different, something fuller, more real-one can still never fully become the other or, more frustratingly, be accepted by that other. 
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