Taras Bulba

4 hrs. 15 min.

Audio Plays, Radio Productions & Literary Readings

Language Russian

Author Nikolai Gogol

Narrator theater actors

Description

Nikolai Gogol’s novella “Taras Bulba,” included in the cycle “Mirgorod,” was published in 1835. In 1842, the second, expanded and revised edition by Gogol appeared, and it is printed in modern editions. In 1952, fragments of the novella were recorded on the radio by the actor of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky Nikolay Bogolyubov; in 1994 the novella was read by the actor of the Maly Theatre Afanasy Kochetkov, and these recordings are stored in the Gosteleradiofond to this day.

The first radio play based on the novella was produced in 2009 on “Radio Rossii-Kul’tura” and aired in March 2010.

Roles performed by

From the author — Valery Barinov
Taras Bulba — Dmitry Nazarov
Ostap — Igor Gordin
Andriy — Mikhail Stankevich
Mother — Olga Vasilieva
Polish woman — Marfa Nazarova
Yankel — Yusulovich Yasyulov
The Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Sich — Sergey Kolesnikov, Alexander Tereshko, Dmitry Pisarenko, Ilya Ilyin, Alexander Khuklin, Valery Markin
Script author — Tatyana Sakharova
Director — Dmitry Nikolaev
Composer — Shandor Kallosh
Sound engineers — Marina Karpenko, Lyubov Ryndina
Assistant director — Marina Lapyghina
Editor — Natalya Novikova
Producer — Olga Zolotseva