History Of The Russian Cossacks Until World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special 

I presume he went into Heilongjiang to live? Harbin was a Russian city at one point, and has Western architecture, including Harbin's Sofia Cathedral, which was a Russian Orthodox church, with onion domes.

Please there is a you tube site called The Aussie Cossack look him up and email him he love his/ your history

Amazing history ... tusind tak for sharing. 🌷

The Russian "Cossacks" as you call them are traitors. They are not real Cossacks. They are Kizacks. Those who don't rebel against tyranny and the Russian Orcs are traitors to Ukraine.

You have to go back

No doubt.

For sure.

HBO is garbage anymore.

I would love to see a hbo show with the Cossacks so bad.

MSM is terribly biased,I would never trust any account by them.

It's great. However, its historical accuracy is highly dubious.

They did show the famous painting of it in the video :D

Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks: As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

We could use a little Cossack spirit in the same vein right now, when Islam assaults our lands.

Its much funnier in the original, as its chock full of funky rhymes and hilarious allegories and untranslatable insinuations. Still, I think its well translated. Not everyone speaks Ukrainian :)

He said so, really? I am from Ukraine where cossacks actually came from

they were really fast horsemen in the PC game

@Tr Commando was it also politics to let Constantinople be raided several times?

@Tr Commando what a suprise, Turks twisting history again. There written acounts from that time about the raids and of course they could only attack the outskirts of the city

He never say that. In battle Cossacks of General Platov were always defeated and rooted vs Napoleonian cavalry. But They played in important role during the retreat of the Grande Armée in 1812 and launched several raids in 1813 in German states behind his lines of communications and supply.

Sounds interesting but way to long for me.

No joke, that book just arrived in my post this morning :) If you think the books too long then check out the 1958 movie epic version by Gersimov (I think?)...it is truly amazing!

its a thick book and tiny print....ive had it for years and only glance....there is a film in parts on utube.

Thanks, I have to read it

War, love, war, friendship, war, heartburn, war, war, war, war... love it

+Prometheus UA sorry, the pictures in our archive usually just show "Cossacks" and that's what we have to rely on.

+Jack Tomphson we're using a commercial archive that operates only in Germany. Basically comparable with Getty images. doubt they have a rule about their cossack images as you're implying.

As much as i agree that there are major differences nowadays people are grouped more loosely than in the past. For eg. I could have a picture of a Sunni moeslem festival or a Shia one but they are just grouped as "moeslem" even though the differences are quite big I could look up The Hitler Youth but sometimes there are just pictures of young german kids from the era. so i don't think you can place the blame on The Great War team because in their defense it was grouped as COSSACK and no specification was given

Zaporozhian Cossacks were in majority Romanians. The Ukranians is a mixture of Romanians, Polish, Russians and others. Translate this page in google chrome. glasul.info/2014/12/29/cazacii-romani-ucraina-tinutul-romanesc-de-la-margine/

Ha ha ha. Good joke. It's good that DNA research has long existed, But it's funnier to hear from Romanians that they are heirs of the Roman Empire, not Italians.It's good that DNA research has long existed

+Николай Казаков great history!

Your fairly lucky, my Cossack heritage was rather destroyed, and all I know of is that my great grandfather and his two brothers were captured by the Austrians and spent most of the war in POW camp, and after the war stayed in at then newly founded Yugoslavia. And all I know of their cossack heritage is from some of the stories my grandfather told me. Apparently my great great grandfather was an Ataman of the Smolensk region with huge estates and noble title, but all of that was lost due to the revolution. Maybe you can help me, I can't find anything online and what I do find is in Russian and the translations are.. eh, bad. The family name was Ignaščenko, or at least its pronounced that was in South Slavic accent. Maybe something on the line of Ignacienko, or Ignatiev..

sure thing, i have a friend in the cossack family archives, i sent him that lastname and he will check, it goes back over 200 years

Thank you, I would appreciate that very much.

thats a greathistory you have there. as a serb I highly respect my cossack brothers and their loyalty.

Definitely!

so why did you spent so many symbols on saying how fragmented this story, just spit out those important things that were missed

Some of the pictures used are of Circassians, he is definitely over simplifying giving a false picture of the region at the time

Ok, what did he say wrong?

Its not a little knowledge, its the illusion of knowledge and judging too much beforehand. Be wise with the knowledge you do have.

This comment is a true statement. A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous concept..

Запорожцы если что сразу к Кате поехали и получили землю в черноморье

@@andersschultz6818 ага прям таки сразу

My great great Grandfather said he was a White Russian Polish Cossack and had some connection with Lithuania he also used to say from the steps .My Grandmother who is still alive his Grandaughter is now 90 years old .He came to the Uk with cases of gold coins hid in the basement of his house ,he also told my gran to go down to the docks and when you see the men with this uniform say these words and bring them to the house which she did an they would all go to the back of his shop talking and drinking very hush hush ,the story goes his family tried to arrange a marriage for him but he was in love with maid so they fled to France from France to the Uk i was trying my trace my roots and came across this and i was wandering what the link was with Lithuania was he was a vey strict an religious family man i found our family grave in Liverpool Uk

​@@mariasavva2741 Interesting, my Grandfather was a Polish Cossack, who married my Grandmother from Belarus I think? I just know my mum metion she was "White russian". I haven't had any luck tracing further back unfortunately.

Do they still exist?

We were really surprised by these as well.

fronteirsman the world over in 17-1800s.

Here they talk about Don Cossacks, and not about Zaporozhye. Zaporizhzhya Cossacks are not Ukrainians, but Malorussians.

No Name these two terms imply the same nationality, but the term you choose is archaic. No one use except Russians and usually in a degrading manner.

@@NoName-mu2rz Learning real history! Zaporizhzhya Cossacks are Ukranians.

@@pavlosichkar4348 Read Gogol's "Taras Bulba". The Zaporozhye Cossacks never called themselves Ukrainians, but almost always called themselves Russians.

@@NoName-mu2rz Taras Bulda - Story! I talk about real history, please read "Bogdan Khmelnitsky"

The sad part is that many Ukrainians gave in to occupation and complete Russian control over them. The Russian Empire has oppressed and belittled Ukrainians for centuries, banning the Ukrainian language some 140 times since 1700. The Russian Bolshevicks were no different and in fact worst. Lenin first organized an artificial famine in 1920 the struck all over Eastern and Central Ukraine, that time was an experiment and while thousands of people died it was nothing compared to what the Bolshevicks had planned for Ukrainians starting 1932. In 1930 THe Bolshevicks called for a meeting of Ukrainian Kobzars and Bandurists in Kharkiv, these were the famous storytellers, news singers of Ukraine that have been around since the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Most Kobzars were blind and traveled all over Ukraine telling news stories, most of them were also of Cossack lineage. That caused a significant blow to Bolshevick control of information in Soviet Ukraine, as the Kobzars were pretty much Ukrainian own mass media that made all information available to the people. This is why in 1930 when they called on the meeting of all blind Kobzars and famous Bandurists in Soviet Ukraine, the 300 Ukrainian men were forced from a cultural center onto transport trucks and driven just outside Kharkiv where they were all executed. They massacred an amazing and flourishing part of Ukrainian culture that has been around for hundreds of years, men who descended from the Zaporoizhian Cossacks, who were Bandurists just like their grand and great and great-great fathers were. Later came the Holodomor, and the Ukrainian cultural genocide everywhere in the Russian Empire. At least 6 Million died in Ukraine, and millions more Ukrainians were artificially starved else where in Soviet Russia. Where ever there were large Ukrainian populations, there was a huge famine such as in Kuban, Voronezh, Rostov. In Siberias far east there were hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who were relocated there during the Russian civil war. They created their own republic called Zeleniy Klyn (Green Klyn), sadly their army was no match for the Soviet Russian army and they were destroyed, these Ukrainians too were artificially starved, as was the Kuban Peoples Republic who joined into a confederation with The Ukrainian Peoples Republic in 1919. The Ukrainians that survived were slowly assimilated, many of their grand sons and great grandsons fight against Ukraine today in the East of the country. Incredibly sad given that their ancestors were oppressed and forcefully deported by Russians, they were Ukrainians. Their roots, language and culture destroyed. Now suddenly their grand kids are Russian occupant scum, the same kind that oppressed them. Your Great Grandfather was a great man no doubt, but he should have fought for his own, not for the occupants.

It's thought that my great grandfather may have worked as a mercenary when there was little work for him to do. He was out of Ukraine and in the U.S. before the first world war. Oddly as it was the majority of the people that lived in his village also settled in the same location in Auburn, New York along with other members of the Zaporizhzhya sich where they built St. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church along with school attached to it. Later a tavern was built and a sportsmen's club with outdoor shooting ranges were added later.

Thats quite amazing even still. I presume they were all Ukrainian speaking? In those days even Eastern Ukraine was.

they all spoke Ukrainian there were vary few Russian speakers in the crowed. My mom always thought he spoken Russian but when I got her to go to Ukraine with me in 2013 she recognized some of the Ukrainian words that were being spoken as we toured around the historic Village near Kyiv. My grandfather's only positions when he arrived here were his full dress Uniform, Calvary sword, and a bible. Many of the people who came from the same village also arrived with the same items. I still have some of the paper currency and some of the coins that he had on him.

украинских казаков никогда не существовало

Cossacks are ukrainian history

A duel between a monk and the champion of a mongol horde sure sounds like an interesting tale.

That might have been ok. They still needed people to take care of the horses. But the country was starving and they needed meat. So horse burgers for all.

Well a lot of it was the Soviets trying to repress Cossack identity. The Communists tried in general to suppress the traditional cultures and identities of peoples in the Soviet Union, but the Cossacks got some of the worst of it due to their association with the Tsarist Empire and their support for the Whites during the Civil War.

aviel, citeste asta(you can translate it in google chrome if you don`t speak romanian) glasul.info/2014/12/29/cazacii-romani-ucraina-tinutul-romanesc-de-la-margine/

Andrei the Cossacks were a social group that was mostly Ukrainian, back then Ruthenian-Rusyn. They spoke old Ukrainian, and worshiped the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. There probably were Romanians among them but if there were it was a tiny number. Ukrainians are mostly slavic, if i were to compare the avarage Romanian to an Avarage Ukrainian there would be a huge difference. Romanians are more Dark, with Italic features, some Romanians look almost black.

Hey Shukheyvich,instead of bashing your neighbors,go and help your Ukrainians people,coz they are overrun by the Russians in Donetsk.

+Mas9510 good evening

7 PM here.

1:24 here in the ABQ.

Same, i have relatives that moved to Bulgaria after the civil war that were don Cossacks

It is possible to be a Cossack only in Russia, because the Cossacks are the oldest military estate of Russia, which served to protect the state border of Russia, and therefore the Cossacks settled along the border line... Alas, if you are not guarding the state border of Russia, then you are no longer Cossacks, because these understandings (Russia and the Cossacks) do not exist separately, as two sides of the same coin are united.

@@rodjarrow6575 Поди проспись,потом подумай хорошо.На Руси сословие ввели при Петре первом,и с династией Романовых его не стало. Казаки были до сословия,и остались после него. Казаки приходили на Русь(московию) как с османами,так и с крымскими татарами,польской шляхтой.

@@user-uc9gt3rz7r Ну, чья бы корова мычала..., а ваша лучше бы помолчала вместо транслирования глупых заявлений, что, якобы на Руси понятие: князя, боярина, купца... ввели при Петре I ...Ага! Итак, ликбез вашему невежеству о разделение общества Русского на "СОСЛОВНЫЕ РОДЫ" - Перечисляю: Княжий род; боярский род, купеческий род, казацкий род. ("Казацкому роду нет переводу" - слышали такое? И, также текст послов князя Олега в Византии в начале 10 века из Повести Временных лет: "мы послы от рода Русского" ) Так вот слово "род" в этих текстах изначально и есть сословие, которые отменили большевики в 1917, так, что слово "род" приобрело новое значение - исключительно, то, которое мы знаем сегодня...! Однако, на самом деле на Руси сословных родов было больше, еще с далеких летописных времен, и все это еще при Рюриковичах, задолго до начала царствования Романовых! Еще с языческих дохристианских времен - языческий бог Род (согласно языческим верованиям) создал различные роды людей: князья, бояре, жрецы, купцы и т.д.. Это был древний славянский аналог современных каст в Индии, также разделяющих общество, касты, которые не имеют право смешиваться через браки - согласно принадлежности к своем РОДу (СОЛОВИЮ). 2) О том почему часть казаков (летописной, древнейшей русской пограничной службы, которую основал еще Владимир Креститель в 988 году) после 14 столетия начали служить не только царям московским! Потому что народ Русский, Русь (Russia - латынью) к началу 14 века уже был разделен между волнами нашествия орды с востока и нашествия орды с запада евро-оккупантов Северных Крестовых походов против славян", которые начались еще в 12 веке против балтийских славян, и которые, папа Георгий IX в 13 веке прямо перенаправил против Руси (России), и, руками королей католиков Литвы (ВКЛ) и Польши к 14 веку откусил часть народа Русского, часть земли Русской, часть Руси (России), именно ту часть, которую в 1917 году евро-большевики переименовали в современную Украину и Белоруссию и народ русский этих новых советский республик (УССР и БССР) евро-большевики переименовали в народ не русский (украинский и белорусский) именно в период СССР впервые в мире и истории...! А, вот до 1917 года весь этот народ был русским, и ни кем иным! Только русским! Всю историю был русским, начиная с Крещения Руси 988 года, и тому пример текста 1576 года королевской поздравительной грамоты казакам запорожцам и гетману казачьему по случаю победы запорожцев над османами! В этом тексте польско-литовский король Речи Посполитой Стефан Батори официально обращается к национальному титулу гетмана казачьего и к национальному имени казачьей запорожской чести и блгоРОДства (шляхетства) - текст оригинала: «...шляхетство Русское в чынах, урядах и реестровом козацстви знайдуючоесь, едность и равенство имуть с шляхетством Польским и Лытевским, якоже зьедноченье Руси с Польшою и Лытвою улажено есть и утверждено, и мы то подтверждаем и заховуем Трыбуналу (закону) Русскому. Отправовать дила свои по прылычности в новосозданном гроди нашом Батурыни, а як потреба укажет, то и в Черкасах; теж и Гетьманови Русскому резыдовать в тым городи, ...; а бунчук мы жалуем Гетману, на знак звытяжства его з войском своим над народом Азиатычным, от кого и клейнод сей добут працею Гетманского и кровию козацкою.» Итак, независимо от принадлежности не к части Руси (России), у которой столицей была Москва, а, к иной части Руси (России), которая к 14 веку была оккупирована Польшей и Литвой под чутким руководством папы Римского, тем не менее национальное имя этой земли Русской и этого народа Русского оставалось неизменным всегда ! - Это видно из текст королевской поздравительной грамоты казакам запорожцам и их гетману... Более того, для этой оккупированной части земли Русской и народа Русского всем польско-литовским королям католикам в час коронации каждого следующего короля, его Римско-католическая церковь (хотя и незаконно) утверждала дополнительный титул "Великий князь Русский" - так, что в походах на Москву периода Смутного времени Русское казачество Запорожья и его гетман Русский служили титулу Великого князя Русского (которым был польско-литовский король Речи Посполитой) Вот этот титул из полного списка всех титулов короля Речи Посполитой - латынь: "magnus dux Russiae" (Великий князь Русский) ..при том факте, что в смутное время Москва буквально оказалась "без царя в голове" в период до 1613 года коронации на Русское царствие в Москве Михаила Федорович Романова..., поле чего, в то время запорожский гетман Сагайдачный в 1622 с письмом обратился к царю Русскому (Московскому) о принятии русского казачества пограничной запорожской службы под корону царя Русского (Московского)... Однако, молодой царь тогда уклонился от этого предложения, но поблагодарил и назначил легкое жалование запорожцам, так, что еще за 32 года до Хмельницкого (до Переяславской рады 1654) запорожцы уже сели на Московское жалование! - Что конечно же очень не понравилось королю Речи Посполитой, из под короны которого намеревалась уйти русская пограничная служба Запорожья, уйти под корону царя Русского (Московского). И. поэтому вскоре в том же 1622 Сагайдачный был убит - согласно польской версии "убит отравленной турецкой стрелой", при этом, умалчивается правда о том, "чья рука" пустила эту "отравленную турецкую стрелу"...

@@rodjarrow6575 А вы не хотите нам здесь показать договор Хмельницкого с Русью(Переяславская Рада) якобы подписанным самим гетьманом.И кто тогда были Ордынские казаки,пятигорские казаки?

pwrserge83 that's cool man, do the Cossacks of modern era still keep horses and have hetman leadership

pwrserge83 how much has the lifestyle of the cossack's changed?

+pwrserge83 well, the cossacks we're talking about are dead, aren't they? glad you like the video

Mortato Doesnthaveasurname About as much as the lifestyle of the texan cattlemen. Quite a bit. The Cossacks have managed to keep up with the times while holding on to our core cultural identity unlike most native peoples.

Ok, stupid question, but I've had a hard time getting a straight answer; what are in those 'tubes' on the front of the Cossack jackets?

Alternative Futures It's Russia month in 100 year old history...

Alternative Futures Russian bias lol

+Alternative Futures it is

Alternative Futures right

It understand a nation/people's and their modern choices be they GOOD or BAD for themselves or others, you MUST understand their history. Many like even the USA in times of stress look to a glorified past to return to for their solutions and answers.

A cossack was never a nation, it's an ethnic group. I'm a semerichye cossack,we identify as noble warriors

Is not. Means Grasshopper from Vlach or Moldo-Romanian, just like the origin of most early Cossacks and just like their popping dance.

@@alexgreen8232 you mean "chopper"? It is "kosar' " in russian

@@sette8141 The verb "a Cosi, Coase" - to Cut, Chop, Stitch, Sew" is also from Latin "Cosere, Consuere", which a Latin nation could not have adopted from a Slavic Russian language, but the other way around. Cosac, Cosash is clearly Moldo - Romanian "Grasshopper", which is also their jumping "Grasshopper" dance. Besides that early Coosacks were mostly Moldo - Vlachs, they had about 15 Hetmans of Moldavian origin and the dialect of Russian they speak is called "Valachka" Russki, which clearly means Vlach Russian, not to mention their flag being same as the early flag of 19 century Romania.

@@alexgreen8232 not adopted of course, but have same pie origin propably. Like duo and dva. Your vlach theory has chance to exist, but I dont agree with it. Cossacks appeared in territories next to nomads and adopted much of their culture

@@sette8141 They are Proto-Romance evolved from Latin not PIE, like many other Latin origin words in Russian. How did they get that far without a Romance intermediary? Romanian army census between '42-'43 between Bug and Don river found 350 k families of Moldo - Romanian origin and over 1OO k that had an ex Moldo - Romanian member but were fully assimilated by that time. During Tartars time at north of Black Sea Moldo - Vlach boyars were at high esteem between Tartars, unlike most of Slavs, in permanent conflict with the Tartars in time. The Cossacks were a mix of Moldo - Vlachs and Slavs, assimilated in time along with part of their vocabulary, mostly after Catherine the Great expanded empire at north of Black Sea, incorporating the former Cossack Hetmanates, their many leaders of Moldo -Vlach origin they had - remember they were a meritocracy society, represented by the best between themselves and some who could also hand over a leadership message. Then the dialect of Valachka Russian they speak and their 19 century flag same as Romanian flag that time, also comes to confirm that in early stages they had a lot in common with the Vlachs and their initial identity were mostly Vlach. And finally, they do the Grasshopper jump dance. That's exactly what they represent in their jumps.

The only problem is that the Cossacks were subjected to genocide and ethnocide (forced assimilation). The Cossack regions were torn to pieces. And at the moment, the remnants of our people (about 3-3. 5 million) are an unrecognized people on their land and continue to be assimilated.

@@user-mv7ye6vv2r they were also tye instrument of genocide. no tears here for them

Lol Poland occupied russian territory ( Galicia and Volhyn )

@@somuchsecrets2375

@@somuchsecrets2375 really…. So sad that you do not know the truth and even more sad if you just do not what to acknowledge it

Lol. Poland survived because of Russia.

@@malaxes Amen. ((((

Worst Xpac

Careful or the event "Cossack Agression" will fire

What are you talking about? Cossacks were also some great strategy games!

I thought Europe was just in Eu4

Same here and I agree with you. The Cossacks seemed to be ever drunk and causing trouble for the holier than holy Commonwealth. That said you have to realise that Sienkiewicz was trying to promote 'Polishness' in a period when a large part of Poland was part of the Russian Empire. Its no wonder that he cast the then Russian Cossacks in a rather dim light.

Really? Because I got a different impression from the books. My impression is that Cossacks were wronged but the way they responded was "wrong". And that Poles or rather Poland were guilty but not enough guilty to be destroyed.

Rokiriko That was the point of the books in a way. Sienkiewicz took some historical liberties. He downplayed what the Polish nobility did and vilified more than in reality what the Cossacks did For example Jeremi Wisniowieki was not a great general in real life. He was a cruel and warhungry lord that treated ukrainian peasants like cattle. On the other hand Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a great general and not at all the drunkard that was portrayed in the book. Now, as others pointed out, all this is excusable and understandble since Sienkiewicz's purpose was to bring back courage and pride to his countrymen. His books basically said "We were besieged by enemies on all sides but the Republic survived because of the bravery of the ordinary polish man" Edit: I always misspell "Khmelnytsky"

This was a dirty civil war. Poland was in war also with couple other strong countries (cossacs were opportunists and revolt while Polans was in war). Theb fact that we came weakened but victorious from all of them means, thats we were strong empire those days and also cossacs were treated no worse than by muscovites.

@@svarthofde2492 Jeremi Wisniowiecki was Ukrainian. Sorry.

Hi! I am also a Cossack, what host are you from? I'm from semerichye host. (Семереческий войск)

@@KozakDio zaporizhzhia, ukraina. Currently my familly lives in Czechia.

Cossack from mothers side, the familly is hete since 1920 because of bolshevics

+Jokester The Mighty sorry about that

3:30 there it is

who cares. The colluded with the poles and the ottomans. No wonder Catherine the Great disbanded their host.

+Grisha Drohanov it was a huge shitshow.

Barry Irlandi ??? From wiki: Mikhalon Lytvyn, ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the Crimean khanate in his De moribus tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum ("On the customs of Tatars, Lithuanians and Moscovians", written c. 1548-1551) mentions that "[...] the most beloved wife of the present Turkish emperor - mother of his primogenital [son] who will govern after him, was kidnapped from our land".[11] Maybe you are watching too much tv.

lol...BARRY....YOUR OPINIONS MATTER NONE IF RESEARCH WAS ACCURATE....YOU DOLT.

Yes Roxelana was Russian

@John Gregory thats only the version of a ukrainian nationalist writer

@John Gregory so what ure russian ? Ure a historian or u have historic evidence ? Roxelana was Russian

turkic, not turkish

Means Grasshopper from Vlach or Moldo-Romanian, just like the origin of most early Cossacks.

Yes a little. Russian Cossacks defeated the army of the Ottomans and Swedes, destroyed Napoleon and Hitler. And the Ukrainian Cossacks are those who were on the side of the Ottomans, Swedes and Hitler.

@@reorioOrion расскажи про Власова и про Локотскую республику.

"Russian cossacks" aren't a thing, kuban was settled by zaporizhian ukrainian cossacks. They originally spoke ukrainian aswell, and the majority called themselves ukrainian according to 20th century censuses. This changed after ukrainian was banned and the communists tried to russify them, now they're just a shell

​@@reorioOrionfrom your comments I see you have a long history of crying about ukrainian cossacks

+Nikola Bačić is it?

The Great War and great job guy's keep up the good work.

+Nikola Bačić more like attention seeker

Nikola Bačić This is the answer.

C'est ne pas une comment.

Not Bulavin, Pugachev and many others though. Can you blame them though. Peter I and Potemkin basically made it clear to them that unless they played ball all would be enslaved or killed like other cossacks in the border lands aka cossack heartlands of Europe.

They used to boat on the Don, Volga, Azov and Caspian seas.

Mitko Kondev dude, calling the central powers "Axis" makes them look far more evil than they were

You are right but i think i have heard Indy calling them like that

Mitko Kondev he always referd to them as the Central Powers and never used other term to referd the alliance between the German, Autro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires

+TheSmilingChief same for us.

The Circassians wore the same thing

Richard Filatov hello to you from another Cossack .

My geat grandfather was a Cossack, rumored in the family to have been a Hatman. Unfortunately we have lost most of the pictures and don't have documents on that side. However I have always considered myself a Cossack, by blood and love for this amazing group of people. Love their music also , and when I was younger I could dance the cazacioc.

The Empire had an actual Leib-Guard corps in St. Petersburg, which was involved in several coups like the Praetorians.

The Czars had their own Imperial Guards, one such famous unit is the Semenovsky Lifeguards.

What happened to these imperial guard regiments during the February revolution

dandhan87 I don't know, I know that most of them joined the Whites during the Civil War and was either destroyed, forced to flee, or (forced by Vcheka) to defect to the Reds.

More like the Varangian Guard.

Thank you!

Zaporozian cossaks is ukrainian.

@@DY-ij3ch true, but in that times you were part of the commonwealth, ofc polish kings were acting like idiots so Bohdan did hes job :x

@@EliteFasti But they weren't Polish and often fought against the commonwealth

@@snuurferalangur4357 So tell me who they were if you say (wrongly) that they were not Ukrainian.......Swedish, German Russian/Moscovian, Italian, Australian???!!!

No one better to play a Cossack then Yul Brynner.

No. Most of cossacks were ethnically russians. Cossacks are estate.

@@snobberysnobbery8124 The Janissaries were usually ethnic Turk, only the "Devshirme" were Balkan Christians.

Glad you liked it.

@Roy Bower Why murky? I don't understand. For me the most tragic page of Russian history happened recently. When that corrupt sell out Gorbachev destroyed Soviet/Russian Economy and his successor the drunk fool Yeltsin sold everything that was valuable to in-bred degenerate masonic zionist parasites like : Boris Berezovsky who financed and supported Chechen Terrorist in the '90s, Mikhail Khodorkovsky who murdered, butchered anyone who prevented him to grab/steal more oil and after for protection sold it to Jacob Rothschild, Mikhail Prokhorov, etc. Until Putin came to power Innocent Russian People were subjected to humiliating poverty and destruction of their state. That is a CAPITAL CRIME THAT DESERVES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!! But nobody got punished because the guilty ones escaped like cowards and hid themselves and their wealth in UK, US and Israel. Also under their influence western powers put enormous pressure on Putin's new government to not prosecute remaining oligarchs but to leave them alone. Putin found compromise that oligarchs will not be prosecuted but they have to start contributing to the Russian society (like paying taxes and finance some art, school, academic projects) and most importantly to stay away from politics. That my friend is the most horrible time in Russian History and also most of Christian Orthodox Eastern European Countries. How do I know? Because I lived through it and my soul will forever carry the scars from that time!!

Ask Canadians as they have mounted troopers. :)

Us Britbongs have the royal cavalry that does that. Submit to the house of Windsor and we will give you your cavalry riot-control

The U.S army serves that purpose, authoritarian fuckwad

I can visualize the scenario: 1. Crowd gathers shouting their dopey sounding "An-ti-FA! An-ti-FA!" 2. Their shouts are drowned out by "УУУррррраааааа!!!!" followed by thunderous hoof beats 3. Order is restored

@@ImmortalKombat666 Meh pretty sure the Army has been more of a social experiment than a fighting force for some time now

Its far from clear, but at least Wiki claims that both words came from the same Cuman root for Free Man (the Cumans was another massive central asian empire that ruled the region at one time or another)

in Azerbaijan and i think Persian and Russian as well both are the same word its one word

0249er It is not the same word. Cossack is казак while Kazah is казах. It may be only one letter, but one letter can make all the difference, like Russian мишка (a cuddly nickname for a bear) and мышка (a mouse). 8D

yes you are right one letter makes a lot of difference but you can see in this context how they could have been different accents of the same word

izonker I can't give a definitive answer but it might be as they are both mixed with Turkic culture.

take a chill pill george.

Yes sorry for the pogroms, no harsh feelings?

Bolshevist lmao

Margret, don't worry. Ukrainians will help our non-Russian friends occupied by Muscowy to free themselves off of the Moscowian Horde's yoke.

@@turkay67turkay Im a Tsarist and a Ukrainian, and Russians are my brothers, ignore the fascists. We are all people of Rus.

@@samvodopianov9399 lol, was laughing at this for a while. I suggest you google what fascism is before accusing anyone with it. And rus is a broad term, it was used in multiple states, some of which have next to nothing to do with actual kievan rus. I do realize that you russians use term rus as means of reasserting your imperial claims, but at least you gotta know, that term rus was used mainly for small territories around kiev, and not much else.

Ataman is also means ancestor so think they spoke a form of turkish

Im the descendant of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. And we live in Kuban Region, not in ukraine. From the early 19 century there were almost no people of Zaporozhian Cossack Heritage left on the territory wich is now called Ukraine.

nope thats BS

Most were peasants whose land and property was raided by the Tartars, so they banded together for protection and found their niche and way of making living by raiding the Tartar and Ottoman lands. This provoked retaliatory Ottoman invasions against the Commonwealth, following which peace treaties were signed obliging Poland to restrain Cossack raids, which the Commonwealth did by downsizing Cossack regiments and punishing the raiders, which left the Cossacks feeling oppressed by the Commonwealth. This whole problem was to be resolved in 1648 with a joint invasion of Crimea by The Commonwealth and Russia and subsequent placement of Crimea under the Russian administration to remove the original source of the problem - Tartar raids which drove peasants into the Cossack ranks. The Polish king however secretly colluded with Russia and Venice to extend this limited Crimean venture into an all out war against the ottoman Empire to push it out of Europe. The Polish Parliament got the wind of this, told the king to disarm, and the Cossacks who made living by waging war then allied with the Tartars against the Commonwealth.

There were different Cossacks, Don Cossacks are different from the Ukrainian Cossacks. Although the Don Cossackdom was also started by Ukrainians.

@@fauxbummer3794 - first cossacs were Kumans - and the first time cossacs were mentioned was in «Codex Cumanicus» - the word "cossack" mean free horseman

They are assimilated, Russified Turkic people.

"Ukraine (Rus)". XD 😂

Rus is Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. And Russian is modern Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. But Ukraine forgot it... Initially, Cossack lands were located south of Ryazan, on the banks of the Don and Volga. And this is Russia. Later, some of them moved to Ukrainian lands. These are Zaporizhzhya Cossacks. But later they returned to Russia, to the Kuban, where they still live.

@@m7ray Ruś Kijowska

@@vladkuznetsof4338 You speak like a true Russian imperialist who writes history to suit their narrative even when they are not true

Same, brother