Cossacks
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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
Cossack bandurist, 1890
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the s
Khmelnytsky holding a bulava, c. 1651
Portrait of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1650) in the District Museum in Tarnów. Khmelnytsky obtained ready-made garments from the East. According to a 1651 message, Sultan Mehmed IV sent to him "a samite caftan, one of his honorable royal caftans."
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (left) with Tugay Bey (right) at Lviv, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw
Meeting of Khmelnytsky with the Polish envoy, 1648 (unknown author, 17th century)