Music
- The story was the basis of an opera, Taras Bulba, written between 1880-1891, by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. It was published in 1913, and first performed in 1924 (12 years after the composer's death). The opera's libretto was written by Mykhailo Starytsky, the composer's cousin. Tchaikovsky had been impressed with it, and wanted to stage it in Moscow, but Lysenko insisted that it be performed in Ukrainian (not translated into Russian), so Tchaikovsky wasn't able to get it staged in Moscow.
- Czech composer Leoš Janáček's Taras Bulba, a symphonic rhapsody for orchestra, was written in the years 1915–1918, inspired in part by the mass slaughter of World War I. The composition was first performed on 9 October 1921 by František Neumann, and in Prague on 9 November 1924 by Václav Talich and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Reinhold Glière wrote a ballet in Four Acts in 1951-52, published as Opus 92, to commemorate the centenary of the death of Gogol. The ballet was one of Glière's last completed works. It was first performed and published in 1952.
- Franz Waxman wrote an Oscar-nominated score for the 1962 film Taras Bulba.
Film
- Taras Bulba (1909), a silent film adaptation, directed by Aleksandr Drankov
- Taras Bulba (1924), made in Germany by the Russian exile Joseph N. Ermolieff
- Taras Bulba (1936), a French production, directed by Russian director Alexis Granovsky, with noted decor by Andrei Andreyev
- The Rebel Son (1938), a British film starring Harry Baur with a supporting cast of significant British actors
- Taras Bulba (1962), an American adaption starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis and directed by J. Lee Thompson; this adaptation featured a significant musical score by Franz Waxman, which received an Academy Award nomination. Bernard Herrmann called it "the score of a lifetime".
- Taras Bulba, the Cossack, a 1962 Italian film version
- Who's the conqueror? (Ukrainian: Хто завойовник?, romanized: Khto zavoyovnyk?, 1977), a Ukrainian film starring Nudtawat Saksiri as Taras.
- Taras Bulba (2009), directed by Vladimir Bortko, commissioned by the Russian state TV and paid for totally by the Russian Ministry of Culture. It includes Ukrainian, Russian and Polish actors such as Bohdan Stupka (as Taras Bulba), Ada Rogovtseva (as Taras Bulba's wife), Igor Petrenko (as Andriy Bulba), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (as Ostap Bulba) and Magdalena Mielcarz (as a Polish noble girl). The movie was filmed at several locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhzhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilskyi during 2007. The screenplay used the 1842 edition of the novel.
- Veer (2010), a Hindi movie set in 19th century India, is based in part on the plot of Taras Bulba.
