"Тарас Бульба" - гениальная повесть великого Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, revealing for a thinking person such an abyss of relationships and feelings, which can not boast of all the modern literature taken together.
If it's short ...
Драматичные события повести начинаются с описания arrival of the sons of the Cossack colonel Taras Bulba home after the end of the Kyivan bursa (academy). By the way, often the readers have a question about how many sons Taras Bulba had. The answer is given by Gogol from the very first lines of the story: the sons of Bulba had two - the elder Ostap and the youngest Andriy.
Сразу после встречи между отцом и детьми a serious brawl begins, which is stopped by the kind and painful mother of Ostap and Andriya. Gogol immediately immerses his reader in the old world of the patriarchal organization of the family, when the father leads the family, but how he does it determines the mother. And how many sons Taras Bulba has is not so important, because the only woman in this house has enough love and affection for everyone.
And the love of the mother is able to work miracles
Unfortunately, in the case of Taras Bulba and hissons miracle of maternal love turned out to be a bitter property. She tenderly loved the younger - Andria, and her husband more than his sons, loved his homeland and a kind of ghost of freedom, after which in all ages a person struggling for his independence with another man is chasing.
Maybe because the mother loved the younger, andfather - the elder, and the question arises as to how many sons Taras Bulba had: two or one? Whatever it was, the mother's love taught Andriya to love. Only not the homeland and freedom, as the father wanted, but the young Polish pannochku. He did not want to go where his father and elder brother were leading, he just wanted to live and love.
And what's next?
It is difficult to imagine the feelings of a father compelled tosomeone invented the laws of morality to kill his son. Bulba kills Andria, and from this moment his whole life focuses on the eldest son. Father's love is a much more powerful force than maternal love. But even she can not save a person from death.
So it turns out that, striving for freedom, wewe excommunicate ourselves or our neighbor from life in general. So it happened with Bulba. Before his eyes, the eldest son is executed. This episode of the story is so dramatic that the heart is compressed.
It does not matter how many sons Taras Bulba had. It is important to understand what Gogol wanted to say. But it seems that we will not understand this to the end.
