French artist Emeric Lhuisset has recreated a painting by Ukrainian artist Illia Riepin, Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, in a photo. The painting depicts the modern Ukrainian troops ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. RUSSIAN Cossacks on horseback have kicked off a two-month long friendly march on Paris to mark the bicentenary of a key battle Russia ...

Aleksandra Lisowska was kidnapped from a small town not far from Lviv. The men who took her were a group of Tatars. They knew they would get a good price, because they had picked her out for her looks ...

The Cossacks have played an important part at various times in Russian history. Now their ranks are diluted by intermarriage and the admission of non-Cossacks. Elena Strelnikova ponders the attempts ...

Want to see what happens when 15 men on 15 vintage Harley Davidson motorcycles are turned loose in front of a crowded street of spectators? Be sure to check out the famous Cossacks motorcycle stunt ...

16th century Cossack clans consolidated into the two states of Zaporojie and Don Cossack. Though independent, they fought to protect the Russian border against Mongol and Tartar invasions. 17th ...

In the new season of Russian Life, we look at the most amazing aspects of the world’s largest country. We begin our journey in the south of European Russia, where today – as in the past – Russian ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Compared to the chaos of modern wars, warfare in the early 19th century was a highly formalized affair. Thousands of men marched in formation around ...