HE IS DAUNTLESS in battle, defiant in adversity and loyal to his comrades. With his last words, he foresees the coming of an invincible tsar. Taras Bulba, hero of Nikolai Gogol’s novella of the same ...

Status Burgers, Steak Dinners, and Sabrina Carpenter at Wild Cherry The Frenchette guys’ newest restaurant is pretheater dining that can upstage the show.

“Taras Bulba,” the most grandiose Ukrainian film-project of recent years, is finally reaching the big screen. In fact the movie was finished awhile ago but the decision was made to release it in time ...

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The ancient Greeks, it has been said, were too reasonable to ignore the intoxicating power of the unreasonable. They worshiped Dionysus, the god of excess and ecstasy, and they admired tragedy—an art ...

Vladimir Bortko is one of Russia's most famous film directors. His film "Taras Bulba" went on general release in April 2009. It was more of a political event than a cultural one. For it reflects the ...

Literature and Salman Khan seem to be as different as chalk and cheese. Who could have thought that Salman would actually be a part of a film that brings Russian literature to Bollywood? The actor's ...

An argument erupted on Russian state TV as the host and guests discussed patriotism as the conflict in Ukraine rages on. The guests, which included Duma members and commentators, reflected on comments ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Simon Rattle is in charge, an orchestra is likely to find itself in demand. During his tenure at the ...

For many minutes of the two hours it takes director J. Lee Thompson to put Gogol's tale of the legendary Cossack hero on the screen, the panorama of fighting men and horses sweeping across the wide ...