Don Cossacks

The first and the fiercest are called Don Cossacks, because of their inhabiting the immense steppes of the Don river, on the frontiers of Asia.

Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

There were Russian entertainers in restaurants and nightclubs, Eva recalled, and the chorus of Don Cossacks brought strange sounds, costumes, and colors to Berlin.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

There were Russian entertainers in restaurants and nightclubs, Eva recalled, and the chorus of Don Cossacks brought strange sounds, costumes, and colors to Berlin.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Taganrog, in the wild steppe country of the Don Cossacks, and here the boy spent his summers, fishing in the river, and roving about the countryside as brown as a gipsy, sowing the seeds of that love for nature which he retained all his life.

Anton Chekhov 2003

The Don Cossacks have already gathered along the course of the Volga, and they are to be opposed to the rebel

Michael Strogoff 2003

Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim,

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

A great peasant revolt in the southeast, led by the Don Cossacks, under Stephen Razin.

1667 2001

The command in the south was taken over by Gen. Anton Denikin, supported by Gen. Peter Krasnov (hetman of the Don Cossacks, May 11).

1918-20 2001

To the great Russians belong the Don Cossacks, with those sprung from them -- the Kouban, Stavropol, Khoperski, Volga, Mosdok, Kizlarski and Grebenski.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

AZOV, or Asov (in Turkish, _Asak_), a town of Russia, in the government of the Don Cossacks, on the left bank of the southern arm of the Don, about 20

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various