Cossacks

Choose then, Cossacks, for whom will you stand: for the Kornilovs and Kaledins, for the Generals and rich men, or for the Soviets of Peasants’, Soldiers’, Workers’ and Cossacks’ Deputies.

Appendix to Chapter XI 1922

We are calling upon you, Cossacks, to join this new order and to create your own Soviets of Cossacks’ Deputies.

Appendix to Chapter XI 1922

Cossacks from the Polish frontier, and robbers, banditti, and barbarians of all countries besides, so that I have a distinct idea of your broken

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Pannonia and Transylvania, and the Cossacks from the Polish frontier, and robbers, banditti, and barbarians of all countries besides, so that

A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

Part of the reason for the confusion is that the Cossacks were a hugely nomadic tribal group, and they were all over Russia, and Central Asia.

The WritingYA Weblog: Buckle Your Swash: Under Radar Reccomendations tanita davis 2007

Part of the reason for the confusion is that the Cossacks were a hugely nomadic tribal group, and they were all over Russia, and Central Asia.

Archive 2007-08-01 tanita davis 2007

Dolokhov remarked that the Cossacks were a danger only to stragglers such as his companion and himself, “but probably they would not dare to attack large detachments?” he added inquiringly.

War and Peace 2003

Under oppressive Polish and Russian rule in the seventeenth century, Ukrainian fugitives, known as Cossacks, organized resistance movements.

Ukraine 2002

In America the wild men, the lawless, those with a golden glimmer in the drink-sodden eye, opened up the West just as before them the shaggy cowboys called Cossacks, filgitives from justice all, opened up the East in Siberia, hotly pursued by the soldiers of the central government.

An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

The fugitive from Poland, the fugitive from the Tatar and the Turk, homeless, with nothing to lose, their lives ever exposed to danger, forsook their peaceful occupations and became transformed into a warlike people, known as the Cossacks, whose appearance towards the end of the thirteenth century or at the beginning of the fourteenth was a remarkable event which possibly alone (suggests Gogol) prevented any further inroads by the two Mohammedan nations into Europe.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952