In popular culture of the Soviet period, these small pockets were associated with the national costumes of the Caucasus - which, by the way, were rarely worn - and with… Balbes, a character in ...

The collarless open-breasted kaftan became part of the traditional costume of the Don and Ural Cossacks. Later in the 19th century, it transformed into a uniform kaftan which was fastened tightly ...

The village of Varennikovskoye is home to some 300 Cossacks and their families. The local leader, "Ataman" Viktor Vasilyevich, received me with open arms. He was dressed in traditional Cossack costume ...

Ukrainian heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk has drawn on his Cossack heritage as he prepares for his world title clash with towering Briton Anthony Joshua, whose career could face a reckoning on the Red ...

They watched horsemen in Cossack costume and listened to tour guides recounting the legends of the warrior caste whom Ukrainians consider to be their founding fathers.

The Zaporizhzhian Cossacks held out until Catherine the Great, one of the Russian empire's most formidable leaders, disbanded them in 1775. But today, Kopishinskyi says, the Russians are weak.

He was dressed in traditional Cossack costume, which includes a full-length black coat, a sheepskin hat and a sword. He oozed authority, and it was immediately clear that he was held in deep ...