Short Fiction · Character
Hvèydka
An old Cossack character.
minor
Also known as The Cossack Hvèydka, the Cossack, Cossack, this old Cossack, The Cossack
First appearance: short fiction
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Referenced as a Cossack who sometimes visits, with a long mustache and wrinkled face, serving as a model for the boy's imagination of the Cossacks in the song.
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- Other
Character groups
- Old Cossacks and youth
- Village community figures
- Central family and authority
- Protagonist
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