Historically, the Cossack way of living was one of disorder ... in response to him trying to tell them what to do (a famous oil painting of the scene by Ilya Repin hangs in The Russian Museum ...

Cossacks were a social and military group that by the 10th century settled in southern Russia and present-day Ukraine. They had a Turkic origin and had arrived with hordes of Mongol invasions in the ...

then the Japanese may be able to give the famous Cossack lava a rough lesson. The Cossacks are not to be beaten by serried ranks and classic charges; Napoleon tried that and lost his cavalry ...

Be sure to check out the famous Cossacks motorcycle stunt team this weekend.

He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Army led by the famous Cossack general Semyon Budyonny. Since 1917, wars of the sort being fought now in Bosnia, Chechnya and Azerbaijan had been tearing up ...

The Cossacks also produced the top Soviet tank ace Dmitry Lavrinenko (52 kills), as well as small arms designer Fyodor Tokarev, creator of the famous TT pistol and the Red Army’s main rifle ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. By Constant ...

The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a semi-nomadic militaristic group originating somewhere in the ...

It includes a nature reserve, where horses run free, and was once a headquarters for the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, 17th century warriors revered in Ukraine for their insistence on freedom and self ...

On a wooded river island, a Ukrainian family guards the legacy of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, whose history and traditions are being remembered because of Russia's war on Ukraine. We have a bit of ...