“Everyone in Russia wants to be a Cossack,” he declares ... “revived,” permitted to re-open their schools, wear their uniforms and practice their traditions of horsemanship, sword ...

Cossacks were known as servants of the state or, in Russian - Sluzhilyye Lyudi. These servants of the state played a key role in Siberian settlement by Russians. The Cossacks, a translation of the ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, ...