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There is so much more to Cossack life, their history and culture than we have space to discuss, at least for now. It’s a minor challenge to...

Here in the West, the Cossacks consist partly of myth and legend, partly of reality; our impression of them borders on the fantastical. They...

“Even the SS were afraid of the Cossacks.” That phrase has stuck in my mind for decades, since childhood conversation shed a little light...

Following the defeat of the last Mongol Khan, Tsarist expansion into Siberia and the East took the predictably ghastly form of conquest and...

When an advanced civilisation meets a less advanced civilisation, bad things happen to the latter. That’s the established school of thought and...