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    romanized: dontsi), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (Russian: Донское...
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    major Cossack hosts in the 16th century: near the Dnieper, Don, Volga and Ural Rivers; the Greben Cossacks in Caucasia; and the Zaporozhian Cossacks, mainly...
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    history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks. According to one theory, Cossacks have Slavic...
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    Don Host Oblast was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire which consisted of the territory of the Don Cossacks, coinciding approximately with present-day...
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    (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted twelve separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: the Don Cossack Host the Bug Cossacks the Kuban Cossack Host the Terek...
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    kubantsi), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled...
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    Cossacks in these events, would not be understood without a Cossack prehistory, and so I began with the description of the life of the Don Cossacks just...
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    Novocherkassk (category History of the Don Cossacks)
    of the Union of Cossacks of the Don Military Region took place, where the status of the historical and modern center of the Don Cossacks was established...
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    Forces of South Russia on the territory of Don Cossacks against another self-proclaimed Don Soviet Republic. The Don Republic existed during the Russian Civil...
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    Terek and Rowing Cossacks to the Don Cossacks during the Azov Campaigns in 1695, the Ottoman Empire retaliated against the Terek Cossacks and in 1707 most...
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    Yemelyan Pugachev (category Don Cossacks)
    Yaik Cossacks rebellion. The idea of impersonating the late Emperor Peter III occurred to Pugachev early on, even before he reached the Yaik Cossacks. It...
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    during World War II. It was created on the Eastern Front mostly with Don Cossacks already serving in the Wehrmacht, those who escaped from the advancing...
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  • is one of the main settlement areas of the Don Cossacks. There is a Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra. The Don Musical Wave is a music festival that has been...
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  • The Don Cossacks Choir Russia (Хор донских казаков России) is a Russian folk choir of returned exiles and native Russian cossacks, founded in 1992 and...
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    kissels, brews, and Iryan, a Cossack variant of ayran similar to suzma. Cossacks commonly use bowls and wooden spoons. Cossacks eat three times a day: breakfast...
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    On 16 May, Pyotr Krasnov was elected Ataman. The Don Republic ordered the mobilization of Cossacks for six years. By June, with Denisov as his second...
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    It portrays a Don Cossack. The statue is 6 meters tall, not including its 8-metre barrow. In 2015, the Monument to the Don Cossacks was designated a...
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    starszy ("elder") of the registered cossacks, was Jan Badowski [uk]. The registered Cossacks were the only military Cossack formation recognized by the Polish–Lithuanian...
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  • Sotnia (category Cossack military units and formations)
    within the Russian Empire. Between May and August, fifteen Don Cossacks units mutinied. Cossacks of the second Sotnia carried out a large group of numbers...
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    the Cossack Hetmanate under Russian control. The Zaporozhian Cossacks were not the only notable group of Cossacks; others included the Don Cossack Host...
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    The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted...
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    Bulavin Rebellion (category History of the Don Cossacks)
    between the Don Cossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democratically elected Ataman of the Don Cossacks, led the Cossack rebels. The...
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    Mikhail Sholokhov (category Don Cossacks)
    Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization...
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    area by the Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century.[citation needed] The Don Cossacks, who settled the fertile valley of the river in the 16th and 17th centuries...
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    Nekrasov Cossacks, Nekrasovite Cossacks, Nekrasovites, Nekrasovtsy (Russian: Некрасовцы, Некрасовские казаки, Казаки-некрасовцы) descend from those Don Cossacks...
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    Pyotr Krasnov (category Don Cossacks)
    revolt (see Kerensky-Krasnov uprising). These Cossacks were from two regiments of the 1st Don Cossack Division. On 15 November, Bolshevik troops surrounded...
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    Imperial & Soviet Russia in Color. p. 91. ISBN 0-7643-1320-7. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ussuri Cossacks. Ussuri Cossacks (in Russian) v t e...
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    of Don Cossacks (Russian: Музей истории Донского казачества, Muzyey istorii Donskogo kazachestva) is a museum of art, culture and history of Don Cossacks...
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    to advance towards Azov. The army comprised crack regiments and the Don Cossacks and was divided into three units under the command of Franz Lefort, Patrick...
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    Baikal Cossacks were Cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайка́льское каза́чье во́йско); a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond...
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