Hobsbawm notes a unique “special language or argot” among them. A photo showing the monument to Cossack leader Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky in front of the gold domes of the cathedral in Kyiv ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals' Origins of Ukrainians series, we examine how Ukrainian independence was lost in the ...

The Cossack leader, or hetman, Ivan Mazepa—who had been a loyal vassal of the czar until not long before—had departed with much of his army several days earlier to join forces with the Swedish ...

An icon of independence in Ukraine, his name is anathema in Russia -- literally. Mazepa, who as Cossack hetman of the Zaporizhian Host was the top leader of a large swath of Ukraine from 1687 to ...

In the second half of the 17th century, this region was where the Tsardom of Russia bordered the Cossack Hetmanate, a semi-autonomous state to which modern Ukraine can trace its lineage. Ivan Mazepa ...

He's in the same place as the Cossack hetman who dictates the letter in Repin's painting. Lhuisset told Business Insider that the image includes real weapons and was taken along the Dnipro river.

A stallion carried a wounded Cossack hetman or leader across the river to safety, giving the name Zherebets (stallion) to the village on a tributary of the Dnipro where Shcherbyna was born.