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Cossacks: Their History and Country, The by William Penn Cresson (1873 - 1932)

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One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack struggles for political autonomy. Originally published in 1919. From the Foreword: "It is the proudest boast of the Cossacks of today -- as of their forbears of the Ukraine -- that they have never been classed as serfs nor for a moment lost their freeman's instinct for the principles of liberty. While the peasants of North Russia were bowed in shameful submission to the Great Princes of Moscow and later to the 'dark forces' of the Tsar's court and the Balti...

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Dec 7, 2024

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Episodes

Chapter VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia 07.12.2024
Chapter IV. Bogdan Hmelnicky: A Cossack National Hero 07.12.2024
Chapter XII. The Frontiers of Europe 07.12.2024
Chapter V. The Struggle for the Ukraine 07.12.2024
Chapter XI. The Cossacks of To-day: The Don 07.12.2024
Chapter VIII. Pougatchev 07.12.2024
Chapter VI. Mazeppa 07.12.2024
Chapter X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization and Government 07.12.2024
Foreword 07.12.2024
Chapter IX. The Hetman Platov 07.12.2024
Chapter III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia 07.12.2024
Chapter II. The Zaporogian Cossacks 07.12.2024
Chapter I. The Origin of the "Free People" 07.12.2024

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