BBC offers a brief profile of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Frontier Partisans of the Wild East. View here.
For hundreds of years, a tiny island in the Dnieper River provided sanctuary to a legendary group of warriors — Ukraine’s Zaporozhian Cossacks.
The men moved to Khortytsia in the 15th Century in search of freedom and democracy, as Andriy Kravets from the BBC’s Ukrainian service reports.
A magnificent depiction of the Zaporzhian Cossacks by Anatoly Telenik.
Cannoneer No. 4 says
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Letter of the Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine replying to the Sultan of Turkey.
JimC says
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