Cossacks

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” (Hugo). Victor Hugo is a famous French author who is recognized for his novels, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, which have been adapted into movies, plays, and musicals. Victor had many other writings on various topics, but they all seem influenced by his life experiences. Witnessing life in the lower class of France, growing up in a military family, and his animosity for Napoleon III…

by the Cossacks, who made him their Hetman, the person of highest military rank in the country. In the first movement of his symphonic poem, Liszt describes the journey of Ivan through the vast steppes. The main theme is played by the string section, which disturbed and changed by the timpani beats, probably to suggest the falling of the horse. Liszt also uses some musical themes similar to the traditional songs of the Cossacks, which are especially pronounced at the time when the Cossacks are…

of the 1905 revolution. Moreover, the Tsar had his own secret police otherwise known as the Okhrana who often used arbitrary arrest, detention and torture to gain information and this would have made the Tsar unpopular with ordinary Germans. The cossacks also forcefully suppressed strikes and protests adding to this and the Tsar himself encouraged pogroms against the Jews and supported the Black Hundreds. This is a conditional, political factor contributing to the unpopularity of tsarism. The…

“Congratulations, you have won the game.” Rainsford was a hunter who fell off his boat on the way to the Amazon Jungle. He washed up on Ship Trap Island, located in the middle of the Caribbean. There he was welcomed by the hospitality of Zaroff, a Cossack general who fought in the Russian Civil War. Zaroff was a hardcore hunter who truly only cared about hunting. After countless years of hunting animals, Zaroff wanted a bigger challenge; he wanted an animal that provided an immense challenge. He…

obstacles and he is less insensitive than Zaroff. General Zaroff is a more skilled hunter than Rainsford because he simply has more experience of hunting than Rainsford does. To be more specific in the story, Zaroff states that he is a cossack on page 41. A cossack is “a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen”. (Anna Nemtsova, 2012). In other words he has military skill and experience.…

Imagine running for your life from an animal. This is how an animal feels about being hunted and running for their lives. The central idea of the story “The most Dangerous Game.” revolves around a literary technique called tone. The central idea is animals should be treated with the same empathy and respect that you desire to be treated. Always think about being in another animal's shoes when you are running for your life and about to get eaten by a lion. The author of “Most Dangerous Game”…

The Baron’s Cloak, by Willard Sunderland, focuses on the life story of Baron von Ungern- Sternberg, a Russian military officer. His life gives historical details of what the Russian borderlands were like because he was born in the borderlands, then spent much of his career in the borderlands and would eventually be executed after being captured in the borderlands. He fought on three major fronts like Poland, Lithuanian, and Romania; and against the Austria Hungarians, even though we has not born…

When the Muscovy princes first freed themselves from the Mongol rule, their goal was to create their own state with Moscow at the center. They set out on conquests in hopes of taking land from neighboring khanates, land once ruled by the Mongols. After the reign of Ivan the Terrible the ruler became a monarch, called a tsar, in charge of an all-powerful government. Later, Peter the Great “established the Senate to coordinate government and take the routine tasks away from the tsar, eleven…

General Zaroff and Rainsford are completely different. General Zaroff is a Russian Big game hunter. Zaroff begins to get bored with just killing tigers, elephants and water buffalo. So then he decides to hunt the ultimate trophy animal “men”. A Cossack commands the cavalry division of the russian army until the bolsheviks revolted in 1917. They then installed a communist government and the class system. General went off and established a new world for himself on the Caribbean Island. And there…

man named Ivan who would go to a tavern everything night and would not walk through the cemetery that was located next to the tavern. His house was located on the opposite side of the cemetery but would not dare walk through it. In line 8 the young Cossack lieutenant gave Ivan a challenge to walk through the cemetery and stick the lieutenant’s saber in the ground at the biggest tomb and they would check in the morning to see if the saber was still in the ground. Which would determine if Ivan…