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Cossacks logo #10101) Bolshevik battlers 2) Crimean War group 3) Outdoor sculpture in Russia 4) Riders from the steppes 5) Russian horsemen 6) Siberian mounties 7) Statue in Russia
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Cossacks

Cossacks logo #23365elite cavalry troops of the Russian army; often acted as special police; came from southern areas — Don, Dneiper and Volga Rivers
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cossacks logo #23797Originally peasants, primarily Ukrainian and Russian, who fled from bondage to the lower Dnepr and Don river regions to settle in the frontier areas separating fifteenth-century Muscovy (q.v.), Poland, and the lands occupied by Tatars. The cossacks, engaged in hunting, fishing, and cattle raising, established permanent settlements and later organiz...
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Cossacks

Cossacks logo #21751Originally an amalgamation of runaway peasants, fugitive slaves, escaped convicts, and derelict soldiers, primarily Ukrainian and Russian, settling frontier areas along the Don, Dnepr, and Volga rivers. They supported themselves by brigandry, hunting, fishing, and cattle raising. Later the Cossacks organized military formations for their own defens...
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