# Kukubenko — Short Fiction character guide

> Kukubenko in Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** raged Kukubenko

**First appearance:** 0012-taras-bulba

## Who they are

A brave Cossack leader who dies in battle against the Poles.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/iii)

Proposed as a candidate for the new Koschevoi during the assembly.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/ix)

Surrounded and killed by a spear; dies with a prayer for the Russian land and is taken to heaven by angels.

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