.Cossacks are a group of predominantly –speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Eastern and Southern Ukraine and in. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower, and river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Ukraine and Russia.The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed, though the 1710 claimed origin. The emergence of Cossacks is dated to the 14th or 15th centuries, when two connected groups emerged, the of the Dnieper and the.The Zaporizhian Sich were a people of during feudal times. Under increasing pressure from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the mid-17th century the Sich declared an independent, initiated by a under.
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Afterwards, the (1654) brought most of the under Russian rule.The Sich with its lands became an autonomous region under the Russian-Polish protectorate.The Don Cossack Host, which had been established by the 16th century, allied with the. Together they began a systematic conquest and colonisation of lands in order to secure the borders on the, the whole of (see ) and the and the rivers. Cossack communities had developed along the latter two rivers well before the arrival of the Don Cossacks.By the 18th century Cossack hosts in the occupied effective buffer zones on its borders. The expansionist ambitions of the Empire relied on ensuring the loyalty of Cossacks, which caused tension given their traditional exercise of freedom, democracy, self-rule, and independence. Cossacks such as, and led major anti-imperial wars and revolutions in the Empire in order to abolish and odious bureaucracy and to maintain independence. The empire responded with ruthless executions and tortures, the destruction of the western part of the Don Cossack Host during the in 1707–08, the destruction of after Mazepa's rebellion in 1708, and the formal dissolution of the Lower Dnieper Zaporozhian Host in 1775, after.By the end of the 18th century Cossack nations had been transformed into a special military estate , 'a military class'. Similar to the knights of medieval Europe in feudal times or the tribal Roman auxiliaries, the Cossacks came to military service having to obtain charger horses, arms and supplies at their own expense.
The government provided only firearms and supplies for them. Cossack service was considered the most rigorous one.Because of their military tradition, Cossack forces played an important role in Russia's wars of the 18th–20th centuries, such as the, the, the, the, numerous, numerous and the. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Tsarist regime used Cossacks extensively to perform police service. They also served as border guards on national and internal ethnic borders (as was the case in the Caucasus War).During the, and were the first people to declare open war against the.
By 1918 Russian Cossacks declared the complete independence and formed independent states, the and the. Also the emerged. Cossack troops formed the effective core of the anti-Bolshevik, and Cossack republics became centers for the anti-Bolshevik. With the victory of the, the Cossack lands were subjected to. After the, the Cossacks made a systematic return to Russia.
Many took an active part in. In Russia's 2002 Population Census, 140,028 people reported their as Cossacks.
There are Cossack organizations in Russia, and the. Main article:It is not clear when new apart from and started settling in the lower reaches of major rivers such as the and the after the demise of the Khazar state.
It is unlikely it could have happened before the 13th century, when the broke the power of the, who had assimilated the previous population on that territory. It is known that new settlers inherited a lifestyle that persisted there long before, such as those of the Turkic and the Kassaks. However, Slavic settlements in southern Ukraine started to appear relatively early during the Cuman rule, with the earliest ones, like, dating back to the 11th century.Early 'Proto-Cossack' groups are generally reported to have come into existence within the present-day in the mid-13th century as the influence of Cumans grew weaker, though some have ascribed their origins to as early as the tenth century. Some historians suggest that the Cossack people were of mixed ethnic origins, descending from, and others who settled or passed through the vast Steppe.
However some Turkologists argue that Cossacks are descendants of native of, who lived there long ago before the Mongol invasion. Map of the in the 17th centuryIn the midst of the growing Moscow and Lithuanian powers, new political entities had appeared in the region, such as and the. In 1261 some Slavic people living in the area between the and the were mentioned in Ruthenian chronicles. Historical records of the Cossacks before the 16th century are scant, as is the history of the Ukrainian lands in that period for various reasons.As early as the 15th century a few individuals ventured into the ', the southern frontier regions of Ukraine separating Poland-Lithuania from the Crimean Khanate, which was a naturally rich and fertile region teeming with cattle, wild animals and fish.
These ventures went on short-term expeditions to acquire the region's natural wealth and this mode of existing—farming, hunting, then returning home in the winter or perhaps remaining permanently—came to be known as the Cossack way of life. The brought considerable devastation and depopulation to this area. The also played an important role in the development of the Cossacks.
Ottoman Turks in battle against the Cossacks, 1592.In the 15th century Cossack society was described as a loose of independent communities, often forming local armies, entirely independent from the neighboring states (of, for example, Poland, the Grand Duchy of Moscow or the ). According to the first mention of Cossacks could be found already in the 14th century; however, they were either of Turkic or undefined origin. Hrushevsky states that Cossacks could have descended from the long forgotten, or groups from the Berlad territory in present-day, then a part of the Grand Duchy of Halych,.
There, Cossacks may have served as self-defense formations, organized to defend against raids conducted by neighbors. By 1492 the Crimean Khan complained that Kanev and Cherkasy Cossacks attacked his ship near (Bender), and the Grand Duke of Lithuania promised to find the guilty among the Cossacks. Sometime in the 16th century there appeared the old Ukrainian Ballad of Cossack Holota about a Cossack near.By the 16th century these Cossack societies merged into two independent territorial organisations as well as other smaller, still detached groups:. The Cossacks of, centered on the lower bends of Dnieper, inside the territory of modern Ukraine, with the fortified capital of. They were formally recognised as an independent state, the Zaporozhian Host, by a treaty with Poland in 1649.
The Don Cossack State, on the River Don. The capital of the Don Cossack State was initially Razdory, then it was moved to, and later to.In addition to these two, one finds mention of the less well-known Cossacks such as and Meschera (mishari) Cossacks, of whom Sary Azman was the first Don ataman and which not only were assimilated by Don Cossacks but had their own irregular Bashkir and Meschera Host up to the end of the 19th century.and Cossacks should be mentioned as well.The are the least known ones now.
Zaporozhian Cossacks. Zaporozhian cossack by, 1884The Zaporozhian Cossacks lived on the below the (Ukrainian: za porohamy), also known as the. They became a well-known group whose numbers increased greatly between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Cossacks were usually organized by or princes of the nobility, especially various Lithuanian. Merchants, peasants and runaways from the, Moscow state and modern Moldova and Romania also joined the Cossacks. The first recorded Zaporizhian Host prototype was formed when a cousin of, built a fortress on the island of Little on the banks of the Lower in 1552. The Zaporozhian Host adopted a lifestyle that combined the ancient Cossack order and habits with those of the.The Zaporozhian Cossacks played an important role in European, participating in a series of conflicts and alliances with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the. As a result of the in the middle of the 17th century, the Zaporozhian Cossacks briefly established an independent state, which later became the autonomous (1649–1764).
It was a under protection of the Russian Tsar from 1667 but ruled by the local for a century.The Zaporozhian Sich had its own authorities, its own 'Nizovy' Zaporozhsky Host, and its own land. In the latter half of the 18th century, Russian authorities destroyed this Zaporozhian Host and gave its lands to landlords. Some Cossacks moved to the delta region, where they formed the Danubian Sich under Ottoman rule. To prevent further defection of Cossacks, the Russian government restored the special Cossack status of the majority of Zaporozhian Cossacks. This allowed them to unite in the Host of Loyal Zaporozhians and later to reorganize into other hosts, of which the Black Sea host was most important. They eventually moved to the, due to the distribution of Zaporozhian Sich lands among landlords and the resulting scarcity of land. Victorious Zaporozhian Cossack with the head of a Tatar, 1786 printThe majority of Danubian Sich Cossacks had moved first to the Azov region in 1828, and later joined other former Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region.
Groups were generally identified by faith rather than language in that periodand most descendants of Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region are bilingual, speaking both Russian and of central. Their folklore is largely Ukrainian.
The predominant view of ethnologists and historians is considered to be found in the common culture dating back to the.The Zaporozhians gained a reputation for their raids against the Ottoman Empire and its, although they sometimes plundered other neighbors as well. Their actions increased tension along the southern border of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Low-level warfare took place in those territories for most of the period of the Commonwealth (1569–1795).In 1539, the Ottoman asked Grand Duke to restrain the Cossacks; the Duke replied: 'The Cossacks do not swear allegiance to me, and they live as they themselves please.' In 1549 Tsar replied to Suleiman's request that he stop the attacks by the Don Cossacks, saying, 'The Cossacks of the Don are not my subjects, and they go to war or live in peace without my knowledge.' The major powers tried to exploit Cossack warmongering for their own purposes.
In the 16th century, with the power of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Commonwealth as their subjects. Formed a part of the Commonwealth army until 1699. 's entry to Kyiv by, end of the 19th centuryAround the end of the 16th century, relations between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire were strained by increasing Cossack aggression.
From the second part of the 16th century, Cossacks started raiding Ottoman territories. The Polish government could not control the Cossacks, but was held responsible as the men were nominally their subjects.
In retaliation, living under Ottoman rule launched raids into the Commonwealth, mostly in the southeast territories. In retaliation, Cossack pirates started raiding wealthy trading port-cities in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, as these were just two days away by boat from the mouth of the river. By 1615 and 1625, Cossacks had razed suburbs of, forcing the to flee his palace. In 1637 the Zaporozhian Cossacks, joined by the, captured the strategic Ottoman fortress of, which guarded the Don.Consecutive treaties between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called for the governments to keep the Cossacks and Tatars in check, but neither enforced the treaties strongly. The Polish forced the Cossacks to burn their boats and stop raiding by sea, but they did not give it up entirely. During this time, the sometimes covertly hired Cossack raiders to go against the Ottomans to ease pressure on their own borders. Many Cossacks and Tatars developed longstanding enmity due to the losses of their raids.
The ensuing chaos and cycles of retaliation often turned the entire southeastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth border into a low-intensity war zone. It catalyzed escalation of Commonwealth-Ottoman warfare, from the (1593–1617) to the (1620) and campaigns in the of 1633–1634. An officer of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1720Cossack numbers expanded when the warriors were joined by escaping in Russia and dependence in the Commonwealth. Attempts by the to turn the Zaporozhian Cossacks into peasants eroded the Cossacks' formerly strong loyalty towards the Commonwealth. The government constantly rebuffed Cossack ambitions for recognition as equal to the szlachta, and plans for transforming the Polish-Lithuanian two-nation Commonwealth into a Polish-Lithuanian-Rus' Commonwealth made little progress due to the idea's unpopularity among the Rus' szlachta of the Rus' Cossacks being equal to Rus' szlachta. The Cossacks' strong historic allegiance to the also put them at odds with officials of the -dominated Commonwealth. Tensions increased when Commonwealth policies turned from relative tolerance to suppression of the Eastern Orthodox church after the.
The Cossacks became strongly anti-Roman Catholic, in this case an attitude that became synonymous with anti-Polish.Registered Cossacks. Main article:The waning loyalty of the Cossacks and the 's arrogance towards them resulted in several Cossack uprisings against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the early 17th century.
Finally, the King's adamant refusal to cede to the Cossacks' demand to expand the was the last straw that prompted the largest and most successful of these: the that started in 1648. Some Cossacks, including Polish schlahta, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, divided the lands of Ruthenian szlachta in Ukraine, and became the. The uprising became one of a series of catastrophic events for the Commonwealth known as, which greatly weakened the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and set the stage for its disintegration 100 years later. Kozacy (Cossacks), by, c.
1900 The influential relatives of Russian and Lithuanian szlachta in Moscow helped to create the Russian-Polish alliance against Khmelnitsky's Cossacks as rebels against any order and the private property of Ruthenian Orthodox schlahta, Don Cossack raids on Crimea leaving Khmelnitsky without the aid of his usual Tatar allies. But in Russian opinion, the rebellion ended with the 1654 in which Khmelnitsky Cossacks so that to destroy the Russian-Polish alliance against them pledged their loyalty to the with the latter guaranteeing Cossacks his protection, recognition of Cossack (nobility) and their property and autonomy under his rule, freeing the Cossacks from the Polish sphere of influence and land claims of Ruthenian schlahta. Only some part of the Ruthenian schlahta of the region, being of the Moscow state origin, saved their lands from division among Cossacks and became the part of the Cossack schlachta.
After this, Ruthenian schlahta refrained from its plans to have a Moscow tsar the king of the Commonwealth, its own became the king later. The last, ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to rebuild the Polish-Cossack alliance and create a Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth was the 1658, which was approved by the Polish King and Sejm as well as by some of the Cossack starshyna, including. The starshyna were, however, divided on the issue and the treaty had even less support among rank-and-file Cossacks; thus it failed.Under Russian rule, the Cossack nation of the Zaporozhian Host was divided into two autonomous republics of the Moscow Tsardom: the, and the more independent Zaporizhia.
These organisations gradually lost their autonomy, and were abolished by by the late 18th century. The Hetmanate became the governorship of, and Zaporizhia was absorbed into.In 1775 the Lower Dnieper Zaporozhian Host was destroyed. Later, its high-ranking Cossack leaders were exiled to Siberia, becoming the prisoner of the, for the establishment of a new Sich in the Ottoman Empire by the part of Cossacks without any involvement of the punished Cossack leaders. Black Sea, Azov and Danubian Sich Cossacks.
Cossack wedding. Painting by.With the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich, many Zaporozhian Cossacks, especially the vast majority of and other people from the Greater Russia, defected to Turkey and settled in the area of the Danube river, founding a new Sich there.
Part of these Cossacks settled on Tisa river in the and formed a new Sich there as well. Some Ukrainian-speaking Eastern Orthodox Cossacks ran away across the (territory under the control of the Ottoman Empire), together with Cossacks of the Greater Russia origin, to form a new host before rejoining the others in the Kuban. Many Ukrainian peasants and adventurers joined the Danubian Sich afterwards. Remembers the Danubian Sich, while new siches of Loyal Zaporozhians on the Bug and Dniester are not famous ones.
The majority of Tisa Sich and Danubian Sich Cossacks returned to Russia in 1828 and settled in the area north of the and became known as the Azov Cossacks. But the majority of Zaporozhian Cossacks, especially Ukrainian-speaking Eastern Orthodox, remained loyal to Russia in spite of the Sich destruction and became known as the Black Sea Cossacks. Both Azov and Black Sea Cossacks were resettled to colonise the Kuban steppe, which was a crucial foothold for Russian expansion in the.During the Cossack stay in Turkey, a new host was founded that numbered around 12,000 Cossacks by the end of 1778. Their settlement at the border with Russia was approved by the Ottoman Empire after the Cossacks officially vowed to serve the Sultan. Yet the conflict inside the new host, and the political manoeuvres used by the Russian Empire, led to splits among the Cossacks.
After a portion of the runaway Cossacks returned to Russia they were used by the Russian army to form new military bodies that also incorporated Greek Albanians, Crimean Tatars and Gypsies. However, after the, most of them were incorporated into the together with Loyal Zaporozhian. The Black Sea Host moved to the Kuban steppes. Most of the remaining Cossacks that stayed in the Danube delta returned to Russia in 1828 and created the between. In 1860, more Cossacks were resettled to the North Caucasus and merged into the.Russian Cossacks.
Imperial Russian Cossacks (left) in Paris in 1814The native land of the Cossacks is defined by a line of Russian/Ruthenian town-fortresses located on the border with the steppe and stretching from the middle Volga to Ryazan and Tula, then breaking abruptly to the south and extending to the Dnieper via Pereyaslavl. This area was settled by a population of free people practicing various trades and crafts.These people, constantly facing the warriors on the steppe frontier, received the Turkic name Cossacks ( Kazaks), which was then extended to other free people in Russia. Many Cumans, who had assimilated Khazars, retreated to the Ryazan Grand principality (Grand Duchy) after the Mongol invasion. The oldest reference in the annals mentions Cossacks of the Russian principality of Ryazan serving the principality in the battle against the Tatars in 1444.
In the 16th century, the Cossacks (primarily those of Ryazan) were grouped in military and trading communities on the open steppe and started to migrate into the area of the Don. Ural Cossacks, c. 1799Cossacks served as border guards and protectors of towns, forts, settlements and trading posts, performed policing functions on the frontiers and also came to represent an integral part of the. In the 16th century, to protect the borderland area from, Cossacks carried out sentry and patrol duties, guarding from and nomads of the in the region.The most popular weapons used by Cossack cavalrymen were usually, or, and long.Russian Cossacks played a key role in the expansion of the Russian Empire into Siberia (particularly by ), the Caucasus and Central Asia in the period from the 16th to 19th centuries. Cossacks also served as guides to most Russian expeditions formed by civil and military geographers and surveyors, traders and explorers. In 1648 the Russian Cossack discovered a passage between North America and Asia.
Cossack units played a role in many wars in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries (such as the, the, and the annexation of Central Asia). Semirechye Cossack, (present-day and ), 1911Western Europeans had a lot of contacts with Cossacks during the and had seen Cossack patrols in Berlin. During, Cossacks were the Russian soldiers most feared by the French troops. Napoleon himself stated 'Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.' Cossacks also took part in the war deep inside French-occupied Russian territory, attacking communications and supply lines. These attacks, carried out by Cossacks along with Russian light cavalry and other units, were one of the first developments of tactics and, to some extent, special operations as we know them today.Frenchmen had had few contacts with Cossacks before the Allies occupied Paris in 1814.
As the most exotic of the Russian troops seen in France, Cossacks drew a great deal of attention and notoriety for their alleged purity during Napoleon's wars. Appeared after the Cossack occupation of Paris. had said that 'Cossacks were pure as children and great as Gods.'
Don Cossacks. A group of Yaik (Orenburg) Cossacks from Sakmara settlement (1912). Standing on the left side is Alexander Mertemianovich PogadaevThe Ural Cossack Host was formed from the Ural Cossacks, who had settled along the. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the former name of the river, which was changed by the government after the Pugachev's rebellion. The Ural Cossacks spoke Russian and identified as having primarily Russian ancestry, but they also incorporated many into their ranks.
Twenty years after Moscow had conquered the Volga from Kazan to Astrakhan, in 1577, the government sent troops to disperse pirates and raiders along the Volga (one of their number was ). Some escaped to flee southeast to the Ural River, where they joined Yaik Cossacks. In 1580, they captured. By 1591 they were fighting on behalf of the government in Moscow. During the next century, they were officially recognized by the imperial government.Razin and Pugachev Rebellions The Cossacks, as a largely independent nation, had to defend their liberties and democratic traditions against the ever-expanding, succeeded by Russian Empire.
The Cossacks tended acted independently of the Tsardom of, increasing friction between the two. The Tsardom's power began to grow in 1613 with the ascension of to the throne after the. The government began attempting to integrate the Cossacks into the Muscovite Tsardom by granting elite status and enforcing military service, thus creating divisions within the Cossacks themselves as they fought to keep their own traditions alive. The government's efforts to alter the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Cossacks caused them to be involved in nearly all the major disturbances in Russia over a 200-year period, including the rebellions led. Stenka Razin Sailing in the, by, 1906As regained stability, discontent steadily grew within the serf and peasant populations. The, under, Mikhail's son, divided the Russian population into distinct and fixed hereditary categories.
The Code of 1649 increased tax revenue for the central government and stopped wandering to stabilize the social order by fixing people in the same land with the same occupation of their families. Peasants were tied to the land and townsmen were forced to take on their fathers' occupations. The increased taxes fell mainly on the peasants as a burden and continued to widen the gap between the wealthy and the poor. As the government developed more military expeditions, human and material resources became limited, putting an even harsher strain on the peasants. War with Poland and Sweden in 1662 led to a fiscal crisis and riots across the country.
Taxes, harsh conditions, and the gap between social classes drove peasants and serfs to flee, many of them going to the Cossacks, knowing that the Cossacks would accept refugees and free them.The Cossacks experienced difficulties under Tsar Alexis as the influx of refugees grew daily. The Cossacks received a of food, money, and military supplies from the tsar in return for acting as border defense. These subsidies fluctuated often and provided a source of conflict between the Cossacks and the government. The war with Poland diverted necessary food and military shipments to the Cossacks as the population of the, the unit of Cossacks identified by the region in which they resided, grew with the fugitive peasants. The influx of these refugees troubled the Cossacks not only because of the increased demand for food but also because the large number of these fugitives meant the Cossacks could not absorb them into their culture through the traditional apprenticeship way. Instead of taking these steps of proper assimilation into Cossack society, the runaway peasants spontaneously declared themselves Cossacks and lived beside true Cossacks, laboring or working as barge-haulers to earn food. ByAs conditions worsened and Mikhail's son Alexis took the throne, divisions among the Cossacks began to emerge.
Older Cossacks began to settle and become prosperous, enjoying the privileges they earned through obeying and assisting the. The old Cossacks started giving up their traditions and liberties that had been worth dying for to obtain the pleasures of an elite life. The lawless and restless runaway peasants that called themselves Cossacks looked for adventure and revenge against the nobility that had caused them suffering. These Cossacks did not receive the government subsidies that the old Cossacks enjoyed and thus had to work harder and longer for food and money. These divisions between the elite and lawless would lead to the formation of a Cossack army beginning in 1667 under as well as to the ultimate failure of that rebellion.Stenka Razin was born into an elite Cossack family and had made many diplomatic visits to Moscow before organizing his rebellion.
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The Cossacks were Razin's main supporters and followed him during his first Persian campaign in 1667, plundering and pillaging Persian cities on the. They returned ill and hungry, tired from fighting but rich with plundered goods in 1669. Tried to gain support from the old Cossacks, asking the, or Cossack chieftain, to prevent Razin from following through with his plans. However the ataman, being Razin's godfather and swayed by Razin's promise of a share of the wealth from Razin's expeditions, replied that the elite Cossacks were powerless against the band of rebels. The elite did not see much threat from Razin and his followers either, although they realized he could cause them problems with the Muscovite system if his following developed into a rebellion against the central government.Razin and his followers began to capture cities at the start of the rebellion in 1669. They seized the towns of, and, implementing democratic rule and releasing peasants from slavery as they went.
Razin envisioned a united Cossack republic throughout the southern steppe in which the towns and villages of the area would operate under the democratic, Cossack style of government. These sieges often took place in the runaway peasant Cossacks' old towns, leading them to wreak havoc on their old masters and get the revenge for which they were hoping. The rebels' advancement began to be seen as a problem to the elder Cossacks, who, in 1671, decided to comply with the government in order to receive more subsidies. On April 14, ataman Yakovlev led elders to destroy the rebel camp and captured Razin, taking him soon afterward to Moscow to be executed.Razin's rebellion marked the beginning of the end to traditional Cossack practices. In August 1671, Muscovite envoys administered the and the Cossacks swore loyalty to the. While they still had internal, the Cossacks became Muscovite subjects, a transition that would prove to be a dividing point yet again in.
In prisonFor the Cossack, a noble status within the empire came at the price of their old liberties in the 18th century. Advancement of agricultural settlement began forcing the Cossacks to give up their traditional ways and to adopt new forms of government.
The government steadily changed the entire culture of the Cossacks. Increased service obligations for the Cossacks and mobilized their forces to fight in far-off wars. Peter began establishing non-Cossack troops in fortresses along the Iaik River, and in 1734 a government fortress was constructed at, giving Cossacks a subordinate role in border defense. When the Iaik Cossacks sent a delegation to Peter to explain their grievances, Peter stripped the Cossacks of their autonomous status and subordinated them to the rather than the College of Foreign Affairs, solidifying the change in the Cossacks from border patrol to military servicemen. Over the next fifty years, the central government responded to Cossack grievances with arrests, and exiles.Under, beginning in 1762, the Russian peasants and Cossacks once again faced increased taxation, heavy military conscription, and grain shortages, as had characterized the land before Razin's rebellion.
Although had extended freedom to former church serfs, freeing them from obligations and payments to church authorities, as well as freeing other peasants from serfdom, Catherine did not follow through on these reforms. In 1767, the empress refused to accept grievances directly from the peasantry. Peasants fled once again to the lands of the Cossacks; in particular, the fugitive peasants set their destination for the Iaik Host, whose people were committed to the old Cossack traditions. The changing government burdened the Cossacks as well, extending its reach to reform the Cossack traditions.
Among ordinary Cossacks, hatred of the elite and central government boiled, and by 1772 an open state of rebellion ensued for six months between the Iaik Cossacks and the central government. Don Cossack in the early 1800s, a low-status, arrived in the Iaik Host in late 1772 and claimed to be Peter III, stemming from the expectations of the Cossacks that Peter would have been an effective ruler had he not been assassinated in a plot by his wife Catherine II. Many Iaik Cossacks believed Pugachev's claim, though those closest to him knew the truth. Others that may have known the truth but did not support Catherine II, due to her disposal of Peter III, still spread Pugachev's claim to be the late emperor.The first of the three phases of Pugachev's Rebellion began in September 1773. Cossacks who supported the elite constituted the majority of the first prisoners taken by the rebels. After a five-month siege of, a military college became Pugachev's headquarters. Pugachev began envisioning a Cossack, similar to Razin's vision of a united Cossack republic.
The peasantry across Russia stirred with rumors and listened to issued by Pugachev. However, Pugachev's Rebellion soon came to be seen as an inevitable failure.
The Don Cossacks refused to help the rebellion in the last phase of the revolt because they knew military troops followed Pugachev closely after lifting the siege of Orenburg and following Pugachev's flight from defeated. In September 1774, Pugachev's own Cossack lieutenants turned him over to the government troops.The Cossacks' opposition to centralization of political authority led them to participate in Pugachev's Rebellion. Their defeat led the Cossack elite to accept government reforms in the hope of obtaining status in the nobility.
The ordinary Cossacks had to follow and give up their traditions and liberties.In the Russian Empire. Conquest of Siberia by, painting by.From the start, relations of Cossacks with the were varied; at times they supported Russian military operations, and at others conducted rebellions against the central power. After one of those uprisings at the end of the 18th century, Russian forces destroyed the. Many of the Cossacks who chose to stay loyal to the Russian Monarch and continue their service later moved to the Kuban. Others choosing to continue a mercenary role escaped control by taking advantage of the large delta.By the 19th century, the had annexed the territory of the hosts and controlled them by providing privileges for their service. At this time the Cossacks served as military forces in many wars conducted by the Russian Empire. Cossacks were considered excellent for scouting and reconnaissance duties, as well as undertaking ambushes.
Their tactics in open battles were generally inferior to those of regular soldiers such as the. In 1840 the hosts included the Don, Black Sea, Astrakhan, Little Russia, Azov, Danube, Ural, Stavropol, Mesherya, Orenburg, Siberia, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Yeniseisk, Irkutsk, Sabaikal, Yakutsk and Tartar voiskos. By the 1890s the Ussuri, Semirechensk and Amur Cossacks were added; the last had a regiment of elite mounted rifles. Cossack patrol near oil fields, 1905By the end of the 19th century, the Cossack communities enjoyed a privileged tax-free status in the, although they had a 20-year military service commitment (this was reduced to 18 years from 1909). They were on active duty for five years, but could fulfill their remaining obligation with the reserves. In the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Cossacks counted 4.5 million. They were organized as independent regional hosts, each comprising a number of regiments.Treated as a separate and elite community by the Tsar, the Cossacks rewarded his government with strong loyalty.
His administration frequently used Cossack units to suppress domestic disorder, especially during the. The Imperial Government depended heavily on the perceived reliability of the Cossacks.
By the early 20th century, their decentralized communities and semi-feudal military service were coming to be seen as obsolete. The Russian Army Command, which had worked to professionalize its forces, considered the Cossacks as less well disciplined, trained and mounted than the, dragoons, and of the regular. The Cossack qualities of initiative and rough-riding skills were not always fully appreciated.
As a result, Cossack units were frequently broken up into small detachments for use as scouts, messengers or picturesque escorts.Cossacks in World War I and February Revolution. Wiosna roku 1905 – Cossacks patrol at in, picture of 1906 by At the outbreak of World War I the mounted Cossacks made up 38 regiments, plus some infantry battalions and 52 horse artillery batteries. By 1916 their wartime strength had expanded to 160 regiments plus 176 independent sotnias (squadrons), the latter employed as detached units.
While about a third of the regular Russian cavalry was dismounted in 1916 to serve as infantry, the Cossack arm remained essentially unaffected by modernization.During the initial stages of the of 1917, the three Cossack regiments stationed in proved in the words of a senior officer to be 'extremely slack and indecisive' when deployed in support of the overstretched police. While less than three thousand Cossack reservists and new recruits from the poorer regions of the Don and Kuban regions were involved, their inaction (and that of the primarily ceremonial Konvoi) came as a psychological blow to the Tsarist authorities in the city and encouraged defections from other units. During theThe Corps contained regiments of different Cossack groups, who were, and who had been fighting in the former Yugoslavia.
At the end of the war in 1945, they conducted a fighting retreat north-eastwards over the Karavanken Mountains into Carinthia, where they surrendered to the British Army in. They hoped to join the British to fight. At the time the Cossacks were seen as Nazi collaborators and they were reported to have committed atrocities against resistance fighters in. As part of, the British returned Cossack prisoners of war to Russia.On 28 May 1945, told they would be resettled in Canada or Australia, the Cossacks were transferred to custody at the Soviet demarcation line at Judenburg. Also included in the transfer were civilian members of the Kazachi Stan, consisting of old folk, women, and children, as well as about 850 German officers and non-commissioned officers of the Corps. At the end of the war, the British repatriated between 40 and 50 thousand Cossacks, including families of military, to the Soviet Union. Many of those were reported as never having been Soviet citizens.
An unknown number were subsequently executed or imprisoned. This episode is widely known as the.Modern times Following the war, Cossack units, along with cavalry in general, were rendered obsolete and released from the Soviet Army. In the post-war years many Cossack descendants were thought of as simple peasants, and those who lived inside an autonomous republic usually gave way to the particular minority and migrated elsewhere (particularly, to the Baltic region).
In 2016During the era of the Soviet Union of the late 1980s, many descendants of the Cossacks became enthusiastic about reviving their national traditions. In 1988 the Soviet Union passed a law which allowed formation of former hosts and the creation of new ones. Cossack on duty (portrayal of 16th–17th century), painting byAfter the split of Ukraine along the Dnieper River by the Polish-Russian in 1667, Ukrainian Cossacks were known as Left-bank and Right-bank Cossacks.The ataman had, and at time of war, he was the supreme commander in the field. Was given to the Band Assembly ( Rada). The senior officers were called starshyna.
In the absence of written, the Cossacks were governed by the 'Cossack Traditions' – the common, unwritten law.Cossack society and government were heavily militarized. The nation was called a host ( vois’ko, or viys’ko, translated as 'army').
The people and territories were subdivided into and company districts, and village posts ( polky, sotni, and stanytsi). A unit of a Cossack troop could be called a kuren.Each Cossack settlement, alone or in conjunction with neighbouring settlements, formed military units and regiments of light cavalry (or mounted infantry in the case of Siberian Cossacks). They could respond to a threat on very short notice.A high regard for education was a tradition among the Cossacks of Ukraine. In 1654, when the Patriarch of Antioch, Makarios, traveled to Moscow through Ukraine, his son, Deacon Paul Allepscius, wrote the following report:All over the land of Rus', i.e., among the Cossacks, we have noticed a remarkable feature which made us marvel; all of them, with the exception of only a few among them, even the majority of their wives and daughters, can read and know the order of the church-services as well as the church melodies.
Besides that, their priests take care and educate the orphans, not allowing them to wander in the streets ignorant and unattended. Settlements Russian Cossacks founded numerous settlements (called ) and fortresses along troublesome borders. These included forts Verny (, ) in south Central Asia; in North Caucasus; Fort Alexandrovsk (, Kazakhstan); (, ); Novonikolayevskaya stanitsa (Bautino, Kazakhstan);; and towns and settlements along the, ,. A group of settled in as early as 1685.Cossacks interacted with nearby peoples, and exchanged cultural influences (for example, the Terek Cossacks were heavily influenced by the culture of North Caucasian tribes). They also frequently married local residents (non-Cossack settlers and natives), regardless of race or origin, sometimes setting aside religious restrictions. Brought from distant lands were also common in Cossack families.
General Bogaevsky, a commander in the Russian, mentions in his 1918 memoir that one of his Cossacks, Sotnik Khoperski, was a native Chinese who had been brought back as a child from Manchuria during the 1904–1905; a Cossack family adopted and raised him. Family life. Siberian Cossack family inCossack family values as expressed in 21st century Russia are simple, rigid, and seem very traditional compared to those of contemporary Western culture. In theory men build the home and provide an income; the women take care of the family and provide for the children and household. Traditional Russian values, culture and form the bedrock of their beliefs.Cossacks, particularly those in rural areas, tend to have more children than most other people in Russia. Rural Cossacks often have traditional; they live in large of extended family. These are led by an elder patriarch, usually a grandfather, who often has the title of.Historically, when male Cossacks waged permanent wars at a great distance from their homes, the women took over the role as family leaders.
They were also called on to physically defend their villages and towns from enemy attacks. In some cases, they raided and disarmed neighbouring villages composed of other ethnic groups.
The writer described such Cossack female chauvinism in his novel.' S mother was the daughter of a leader of the civil estate of the Zaporozhian Sich. When Malorossian Cossack regiments had been disbanded, those Cossacks who were not promoted to nobility or did not join other estates were united into a civil Cossack estate, like Korolev's mother's family. Popular image. Portrait of a Cossack woman by Ukrainian ArtistCossacks have long appealed to as idealising freedom and resistance to external authority, and their military exploits against their enemies have contributed to this favorable image.For others, Cossacks have become a symbol of repression because of the role in suppressing popular uprisings in the Russian Empire, their actions during the of 1648–1657 and for their role in, perpetrated by the Terek Cossacks during the Russian revolution, and by various Cossack atamans in Ukraine in 1919, such as atamans Zeleny, Grigoriev and Semosenko. A Ukrainian Cossack (Ostap Kindrachuk) playing the and wearing traditional clothingLiterary reflections of Cossack culture abound in, and, particularly in the works of ( ), ( ). One of 's first novellas, depicts their autonomy and estrangement from Moscow and from centralized rule.
Most Polish Romantic literature deals with themes about the Cossacks. Roman Catholics, especially Poles, could be Zaporozhian Cossacks up to 1635. A lot of landless Polish converted to Eastern Orthodoxy to divide the lands of Ruthenian Schlahta together with Cossacks during the Khmelnitsky uprising. After this Cossacks used to convert Poles, especially Polish children, to Eastern Orthodoxy to turn them into Cossacks. Many Polish and Polish Jewish children were adopted into Cossack families. All Poles captured with arms by Russian forces in the 1812–1814 campaign were enlisted in Cossack Hosts for 25 years, though without the obligation to convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.
However, those who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy might escape from the Cossack service and from any other exile. Thus 'Polish Cossack' became synonymous with a Polish Roman Catholic patriot from 1814.In the literature of Western Europe, Cossacks appear in 's 'Mazepa', poem ', and 's short story '. In many of the stories by adventure writer, the main character is a Cossack.Historiography can interpret Cossackdom in imperial and colonial terms.In Ukraine, where Cossackdom represents historical and cultural heritage, some people have started attempting to recreate the images of Ukrainian Cossacks. Traditional Ukrainian culture is often tied in with the Cossacks, and the Ukrainian government actively supports these attempts. The traditional Cossack serves as a symbol of the Ukrainian presidency, and the island of the, the origin and center of the, has been restored. The famed series, is an Ukrainian indigenous game series influenced by the Cossack culture.Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many have begun seeing Russian Cossacks as defenders of Russian sovereignty. Cossacks have not only reestablished all of their hosts, they have also taken over police and even administrative duties in their homelands.
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The Russian military also took advantage of the patriotic feelings among the Cossacks and as the hosts become larger and more organised; it has in the past turned over some of its surplus military equipment to them. On par with that, the Cossacks also play a large cultural role in the South of Russia. Since the rural ethnic Russian inhabitants of the, Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, as well as of the Autonomous republics of the Northern Caucasus, regard themselves as consisting almost exclusively of at least spiritual Cossack descendants, the region has had a reputation, even in the Soviet times, for its high discipline, low and conservative views. Such areas have high rates of religious attendance and of literacy. Cossacks are also mentioned outside Europe. Japanese anime, which is part of larger anime series, mentioned a Cossack character in the anime, Dora-nichov, is from Russia.Ranks. Modern Kuban Cossack armed forces patch of the Russian militaryThe Russian Empire organised its Cossacks into several voiskos (hosts), which lived along the Russian border, or internal borders between Russian and non-Russian peoples.
Each host originally had its own leadership and regalia as well as its own uniforms and ranks. However, by the late 19th century the latter were standardized following the example of the. A Cossack officer from, with a at his side, early 1900sCossacks were expected to provide their own uniforms.
While these were sometimes manufactured in bulk by factories owned by the individual host, families often handed down garments or made them within the household. Individual items might accordingly vary from those laid down by regulation or be of obsolete pattern.
Each Host had distinctive uniform colourings.For most hosts, the basic uniform consisted of the standard loose-fitting and wide trousers typical of Russian regular troops during the period 1881–1908. The Caucasian Hosts (Kuban and Terek) wore the very long, open fronted, coats with ornamental cartridge loops and coloured beshmets (waistcoats). These have come to epitomize the popular image of the Cossacks. Most hosts wore with coloured cloth tops in full dress, and round caps, with or without peaks, for ordinary duties. These caps were worn sharply slanted to one side by the rank-and-file of cossack regiments, over hair trimmed longer than that of ordinary Russian soldiers. The two Caucasian Hosts wore high fleece caps on most occasions, together with black felt cloaks ( burke) in bad weather.
Cossacks HeavenFrequentlyAsked QuestionsAbout the GameQ: When will the English version be released?A: The English version is availible in the United States and Great BritainQ: Is there an expansion pack?A: Yes. It is called the Art of War and has shipped to Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States. Complete info about the x-pack can be found.There will be another expansion pack called Back to War that is supposed to be released later in 2002. It will includetwo new nations, Hungary and Switzerland.Q: Will there be a sequel?A: Yes, there will be a sequal to Cossacks called Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars.
You can find more info.Q: What is American Conquest?A: American Conquest is another game made by GSC that uses the Cossacks engine. It takes place during the colonial period of America.
You can get more information in our AC FAQ page.Q: In what languages will Cossacks be released?A: German, Spanish, English, French, Ukranian, and Russian.A: You can download the Cossacks demo at this site,.Q: I have more questions. Where can I find another FAQ?A: Cherub Sharpe novel reader has written a great Cossacks FAQ.Gameplay FAQQ: Why do buildings that I capture explode?A: When an enemy's building is about to be captured, the playerusually presses the delete key while selecting the building. Thebuilding's hitpoints slowly drain, and the building explodes whenit reaches zero.
Peasants can repair the building and stop thedepletion of HPs, but several are needed to do that, as the HPsdrop very quicklyQ: How do the armor and hitpoints work?A: When you select a unit, the number below the unit are totalhit points (if not in formation), then sword shield, arrow shield,and pike shield. Cuirassed units have 3 additional number fordefense against cannonball, musket, and grapeshot. Units in formationget points added to their attack values which show up as 21+9with the +9 being the extra benefit of being in formation. Whenin formation, you can't see the hit points of individual soldiers.When a unit loses all hit points, it dies.Q: Why are my buildings, peasants, and artillery being capturedwhen an enemy's units gets near them?A: These units can be captured by a player if their militaryunits are near these units.
Though, the units can only be capturedif there aren't any of the player's own military forces nearby.Q: What buildings can't be captured?A: The only buildings in Cossacks that cannot be captured arethe barracks, stable, shipyard, and diplomatic center.Q: Why are my resources being depleted?A: Every unit in cossacks need resources in order to function.Peasants and troops need food, officers and ships need gold, wallsneed stone and wood. Coal and iron are also depleted after everyshot from a gunpowder unit.
Without a stockpile of coal and iron,these gunpowder units can't shoot. Without a stockpile of food,your troops will die. When a player runs out of gold, their shipswill turn on them.Q: How do I queue a lot of units quickly?A: You can queue 5 units at a time by shift-clicking on the unit'sbuild icon (i.e.
Shift-click on the Peasant icon on the Town Hallto queue 5 peasants.)Q: How do I create formations?A: You'll need an officer, a drummer, and either 15, 36, 72,96, 120, or 196 soldiers; or, if you're forming them into a squareor column, 36, 72, 96, 120, or 196 soldiers.Gather the soldiers, officer, and drummer in the same place.Select the officer to access the icons for different formations.Click on the icon of the formation you want your troops to assume.After that, transparent icons of the units will appear to theright of the formation icon you had clicked on. Icons that aresemi-transparent are because they are too far.
Otherwise, clickon the non-transparent icons to select the units you wish to bein that formation.Q: How do I build Walls?A: Select one or more peasants. Click on the wall icon, and thenclick on the map to mark the corners of the wall. To start buildingthe wall, double click on the map where you want the wall to end.Q: How do I build gates?A: Gates are built by clicking on a section of wall at least2 sections long which is in a straight line. There will be anicon in the status area of the screen that allows a player tobuild a gate. Clicking on the button will build the gate. Whenthe gate is finished being build, a player can open and closethe gate by clicking on the gate and clicking on the open/closegate function.Q: Why can't I gather Gold, Coal, and Iron even though I havemines built?A: It is needed for peasants to be put in mines before they areto function.
Do this by selecting peasants and right clickingon the mine. It is possible to recieve upgrades at the mines toallow more peasants to work in the mine.Q: How do I reach the 18th Century?A: In order to progress to 18th Century it is required to havea Town Hall, Blacksmith, Storehouse, Mill, Barracks, Market, Stables,Academy, Artillery Depot and Church. Select your Town Hall andclick on the 18th Century transition icon, provided you have enoughresources.Q: Why can't I build any more units, even though I'm not atthe 8,000 unit pop limit?A: After the habitation limit for the barracks and town hallis reached, it is required the dwellings are built, which adds15 units to your habitation limit.Q: Why do some building's price increase?A: When a certian building is built, it's build price increasesby a determined amount. Unless you build only 1 of these buildings,you cannot bypass this effect.Q: Mercenaries cost a little bit of gold and train several timesfaster, what's the catch?A: Every time a mercenary is trained, its price increases. Also,mercenaries have less hitpoints and turn on you when you run outof gold.Q: Why aren't some units destroying the enemy's buildings?A: The only units that are able to attack buildings are grenadiers,archers, war ships, and artillery. All other units can only capturethe buildings.Tech FAQQ: How do I go back to Windows without closing the game?A: In order to return to windows without quitting cossacks, youmuch hold Alt, then hit Tab. The game will minimize, and you willbe in windows again.
In order to open the game again, go to thepopup bar and click on the game's 'Icon'.Q: How do I take screenshots in the game?A: Simply press 'g' when you want to take a picture of a particularpart of a game. The picture will be in the Cossacks file, withthe root name 'scr'.Q: How do I access the map editor in the demo or regular game?A: You need to follow these steps. Start the game.
Then holdCtrl and click 'Intro' on the menu. There will be the map editor,though it is in Ukrainian. However, there will be a full map editor included in the expansion pack.Q: Since Cossacks is using a 3D engine, can I zoom?A: No. You will only be able to have 1 type of view, and thatview allows you to see the entire field within your screen.Q: Where do I play the full version of Cossacks multiplayerin a Network?A: The only network that allows you to play Cossacks multiplayeris.
Simply downloadthe program that is needed. It is free, you only need to pay $20 for a premium version.Q: How do I play multiplayer in the demo?A: The only FREE way to play EW Cossacks demo in multiplayeris to play it through Khan network. Khan is an utility which trickswindows and forces an IPX game through TCP/IP protocol. Here`sa small manual on how to play Cossacks Demo on Khan:. Step 1: Make sure u have your IPX protocol installed on yourWindows 95 or Windows 98(Note: Khan only supports Windown 95,Windows 98 and MS-Dos) Oleg wrote a small manual, check it outhere. Step 2: Go here and D/l Khan v1.3(I suggestd/l installer version 1.26Megs, it`s easier to install it).
Step 3: Run that program and choose Connect to Khan Central.NetServer (first small comp Icon form the list). Step 4: In the Launch Pad Menu you need to setup the links toyour EW Cossacks DEMO. Type in fields with File Name(dmcr.exe)and Directory Path(i.e. D:EW - Cossacks) of your Cossacks Demo.
Step 5: After you login to Khan Central you can either chatin the chat window or join/create channel to meet your friends(i.e /join #mychannel) OR you can launch the game by pressing theIcon at the bottom of the Khan Chat Window. Step 6: Than you are inside of the game go to multiplayer thanDeathmatch than IPX Create or IPX Join.There are few bugs in multiplayer such as: YOU CAN`T CHAT INSIDEOF THE GAME. Also than the multiplayer games start weird messagessuch as' Player? Have left the game' appear. Don`t pay attentionto these messages thus they are nothing more bug bugs.Info courtesy ofQ: Is there any other way to play multiplayer Cossacks?A: Yes.
There is an ingame room. You can access it my going to the multiplayer section of the game,choose internet game, then join, and you are in the room. Cossacks also supports LAN and IP games.Q: What are the system requirements?A: Minimal system requirements:Pentium 200MHz, 32 Mb RAM, 1 Mb Video RAM, 200Mb HDD, 8x CD-ROM,Sound card, DirectX 6.0.Recommended system requirements:Pentium II 233 and better, 64 Mb RAM, 4 Mb Video RAM, 200 Mb HDD,12x CD-ROM, Sound card, DirectX 6.0.Compiled by, updated by'is a game by.Copyright © 2001. All Rights Reserved.Please see our&.Comments?
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