The Cossacks is the story of a disillusioned Russian nobleman, Dmitri Olenin, who attempts to find fulfillment among the wild and free Cossack people of the Caucasus. As Olenin begins to lose himself in the Cossack way of life, he starts to discover many things, the most important of which is his own sense of self.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer, philosopher and political thinker who primarily wrote novels and short stories