# The Cossack — Poetry character guide

> The Cossack in Poetry by Taras Shevchenko.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Cossack

**First appearance:** 0000-the-night-of-taras

## Who they are

A symbolic or literal Cossack warrior, central to several narrative poems.

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