Under Ivan the Terrible, the Cossacks living in the South (along the Don, the Dnieper rivers, and elsewhere) were partly governed by his prikazes (state institutions that preceded ministries).

The two of the largest groups consolidated into the Zaporojie and Don Cossack groups by the 16th century. Although formally independent, they sometimes fought off Mongol and Tartar raids ...

Cossack cannons fire volleys at the French along the river Don. Behind the smoke clouds, Turks and Cossacks clash glistening swords. But since the early 1990s the Cossacks have been busy reviving ...

Men in cossack uniforms who helped police an opposition march against Russian President Vladimir Putin notoriously attacked demonstrators with leather whips. Don Cossacks practise their riding ...

Last month, the Fifth World Congress of Cossacks took place in Novocherkassk, in the heartland of the Don Cossacks in southern Russia. 120 delegates from the Cossack diaspora attended, to discuss ...

What did the Cossacks eat after battle? Here are some recipes that still get the blood pumping to this day. In the early 20th century, the Don Cossacks numbered more than 1.5 million, consisting ...

Image by Forward collage Yelanskaya — In the Rostov region of Russia stands a memorial complex to Don Cossacks who fought against Bolsheviks. Looming over the complex is a statue of Pyotr ...

Iakov Efimovich Fomin was born in 1885 in the Cossack hamlet of Rubezhnoe in Elenskaia stanitsa in the Upper Don district (stanitsas were the village units of the Cossacks, primary units in political ...