Zaporozhian Cossacks
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The Zaporozhian Cossacks or Zaporizhian Cossacks, also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host, were Cossacks who lived beyond the Dnieper Rapids. They were predominantly Rutheni
Zaporozhian Cossack by Konstantin Makovsky, 1884
A Zaporozhian Sich Rada (Council)
Battle between Maksym Kryvonis and Jarema Wisniowiecki during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, by Nikolay Samokish
Zaporozhians in 1740
Mezhyhirya Monastery
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The Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery was an Eastern Orthodox female monastery that was located in the neighborhood of Mezhyhiria outside of the Vyshhorod city limits.
The Mezhyhirya Monastery, located on the right bank of the Dnieper. Fyodor Solntsev, 1843.
The Mezhyhirya Monastery as drawn by Abraham van Westerveld during the 1650s.
A drawing of the monastery by Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, 1843.
The monastery as seen on an early 20th-century postcard.