Ataman
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Ataman was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukrainian vers
Ivan Matveevich Krasnoshchekov, Ataman of the Don Cossacks. Portrait is from 1761. The term Ataman is a theme of various Russian folk songs (Watch Russian folk song where Ataman is the theme of the song on YouTube)
Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Yorck
Haydamak
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The haydamaks, also haidamakas or haidamaky or haidamaks were Ukrainian Cossack paramilitaries, who were active in the eastern part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The haidamak movement emerged
Ataman
…otaman, wataman, vataman; Russian: атаман, romanized: ataman; Ukrainian: отаман, romanized: otaman, German: Feldataman) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukrainian…
Cossack Mamay and the Haidamaka hang a Jew by his heels. Ukrainian folk art, 19th century
A portrait of Maksym Zalizniak
A portrait of Ivan Gonta
Haidamak on a Horse (1899) by Mykola Samokysh