The Zaporozhian Cossacks. From a private collection. Artist Brandt, Jozef (1841-1915). (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Over time, these Cossack groups developed strong military ...

This is the story of how a small frontier territory of approximately 80,000 square kilometers — once home to the free-roaming Zaporozhian Cossacks with a population not exceeding 300,000 — ...

Gradually, a new social group called the Zaporozhian Cossacks emerged from the East Slavic population living freely in the southern steppes of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Lhuisset told The Art Newspaper that soldiers of the 112th Territorial Defence Brigade re-enacted the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880-1891) by the Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Repin, which ...

The painting — “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey” — is familiar to most Ukrainians, with reproductions adorning many family homes.

Lhuisset's artwork is a homage to "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" by Ilya Repin (1880-1891). Ilya Repin/The Yorck Project ...

The models for the Ukrainian Cossacks in one of his most famous paintings, “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks,” were friends and academics from the university in St. Petersburg.

New Year's musical about the love of the Zaporozhian Cossack Yevhen and the daughter of the headman of the Cossack village, Polina, who, despite various obstacles, will anyway be together.

One of the most curious episodes of Jews bearing arms in a military capacity occurred 250 years ago in the Russian Empire under the Romanovs. It was Potemkin's Israelovsky Regiment.

Discover the Cossacks' impact on Ukraine's history, from their autonomous Sich to the modern revival of their symbols and ...