The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic, Eastern Orthodox Christian militant people, originating from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an importan
An American Cossack family in the 1950s
A Siberian Cossack family in Novosibirsk, after 2000
Cossacks marching in Red Square at the 2015 Victory Day Parade
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, Khmelnytsky insurrection, Cossack Revolution, or, in Ukraine, as the National Liberation War, was a successful Cossack rebellion with el
Entrance of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi to Kyiv in 1649 by 19th-century Ukrainian painter Mykola Ivasyuk
Meeting of Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey by Juliusz Kossak.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey at Lviv, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw.
Reception of John Casimir's envoy by Khmelnitsky in Zamość.