The liquidation of the Zaporozhian Host in 1775 was the forcible destruction by Russian troops of the Cossack formation, the Nova Sich, and the final liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich as a semi-auto
Last Rada on Sich, Viktor Kovalyov [uk], the mid 19th century
One of the St. Elizabeth fortress cannons
The Zaporozhian Sich was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries. For the latter part of that period, it was an autonomous stra
"Zaporizhians" by Józef Brandt
Zaporozhian Cossack, 18th century.
Cossacks compose an answer to a letter from the Ottoman Sultan, (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, by Ilya Repin)
A Zaporozhian Sich Rada (Council)