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

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.

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch A Cossack Beyond the Danube (1954). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.

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

To appreciate the depth of contempt for politicians among the public, they could scrutinise Repin’s wonderfully scabrous painting, “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks”. For a lesson in political ...

To Ukrainian ears, it would seem the Pope had chosen the very tsars who had made it their policy to destroy any Ukrainian national consciousness whatsoever. Peter I destroyed the Cossack fortress of ...

And with Perth being linked to the nearby Scone Palace and the recently returned Stone of Destiny, Nikopol was also a base and a fortress for the rulers of the famous Zaporozhian Cossacks.

For Ukrainian nationalists, Cossacks have acquired mythic status as heroic freebooters, symbols of adventure and anarchic liberty. That is how Gogol represents them in his novella Taras Bulba (1835) ...

'Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey', also known as 'Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto', 19th-century imagining of a supposed historical event of 1676 ...

The picture is not photojournalism, but the result of a calculated staging based on the great painting by the Ukrainian artist Ilya Repin (1844-1930), Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1891).

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 ...