The Cossacks and Other StoriesPart of the Penguin Classics' fresh new editions of Tolstoy's major works including Antony Briggs' stunning new translation of War and Peace In 1851, at the age of twenty two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the