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Author : William Penn Cresson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329919846
In 'The Cossacks, ' William Penn Cresson traces the history and culture of these legendary Slavic warriors
Author : Mykhaĭlo Hrushevsʹkyĭ,Uliana M. Pasicznyk
Publisher : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047522506
This work focuses on the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks from their origins in the 15th century to their rise as an important military, social and political force in the first decades of the 17th century.
Author : Nicholas V. Feodoroff
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1560727160
This interesting and informative book presents a picture of warriors quite different from today's flyover heroes and values diametrically opposed to the 'didn't inhale' crowd. Mr Feodoroff, a Cossack himself, offers us a detailed history of his people, including their politics, military afflictions, culture, ideology and philosophy, as well as their typical personality characteristics. A picture emerges quite at variance with the image projected by the media in the West. We are presented with rare illustrations and descriptions of a lifestyle filled with adventure and faith.
Author : William Cresson
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531267117
THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia. The legions of Rome and Byzance found this territory as impossible to occupy by military force as the high seas...
Author : V. G. Glazkov
Publisher : Robert Speller & Sons
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Cossacks
ISBN : 0831500352
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536738
In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation, and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of the text's discovery and dissemination, unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary imagination. In so doing he brilliantly illuminates the relationship between history, myth, empire and nationhood from Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Author : W P 1873-1932 Cresson
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342899171
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004622833
The Cossacks have always exerted a strong pull on the imagination, whether as the ferocious horsemen who harassed the retreating Grande Armee of Napoleon all the way to the gates of Paris, or as the fiercely independent renegades who made several bloody attempts at rebellion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were responsible for various atrocities continuing into the twentieth century. This splendidly-illustrated volume tells the tale of these great warriors, which is itself woven inextricably through the history of the Russian and Soviet empires. Career diplomat and critically-acclaimed travel writer John Ure traces the story of the Cossacks from the times of Ivan the Terrible, who first employed the horsemen of the Don to repel Tartar and Turkish invaders. From this point in history, the Tsars of Russia counted on the service, if not always the loyalty, of the Cossacks. After the period of Cossack rebellions, led successively by Bogdan, Stenka Razin, Mazeppa, and Pugachev, the Tsars once again harnessed the Cossacks for their own purposes, using them in the front lines in the wars against Napoleon and in the Caucasus, and later to suppress the fomenting revolution. Brutally repressed during the Stalin era, the Cossacks have experienced a resurgence in the post-Communist era. In the early- and mid-nineties. Cossack units were re-established in the Russian Army, and some Cossacks saw action in Bosnia and Chechmya. Once again, they are reclaiming their role in history as a force in both the political and military spheres. John Ure also traces the influence of the Cossacks on Russian culture: writers such as Tolstoy (who served in a Cossack regiment in the Caucasus). Pushkin. Lermontov, and Pasternak all romanticized the Cossacks in print. Featured in this volume in full-color are a glorious and broad selection of paintings, lithographs, and photographs that document this fascinating history. The Cossacks emerge from this narrative in all their brilliant glory -- dashing and cruel, unpredictable and immensely brave. Book jacket.
Author : W. P. Cresson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499382545
From the preface: "TO weave a connected narrative from the known episodes of Cossack history would be a difficult and, in many ways, an impossible task. Such a work would, moreover, involve years of patient preparation and research-for authentic records concerning the subject are only to be found scattered as isolated chapters or paragraphs among the pages of Russian, Polish and Turkish history. Poets and native bards were, generally speaking, the chief historians of the Cossacks or "Free People." The guiding traditions of their race, like those of all pastoral peoples, are to be found in songs, ballads and folkstories, rather than in written records. Yet the national ideals thus orally maintained have lost nothing thereby in strength or influence. The Cossack ballads and khorovod of the present day, like those of earlier times, teach love of freedom, loyalty to comrades and hetman, and a sturdy devotion to the privileges which the courage of their forefathers obtained for them in the past. Cossack folktales differ in many respects from the heroic legends and peasant by-lines of the North. They possess, moreover, a characteristic strain-praise of joyous adventure and "glad living"-all their own. Filled with the spirit of the "Free Steppes," they tell of hard knocks given and taken for the sheer love of fight; of struggles desperate and bloody, followed by Gargantuan feasting and debauch. Doughty feats with the wine-cup are honoured almost equally with deeds of war. In all these romances the dominant note is the praise of personal liberty and of a freedom often degenerating into license."
Author : William Penn Cresson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Cossacks
ISBN : OCLC:1031245368
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107022102
The fascinating story of The History of the Rus', one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554438
The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and large the Cossacks were Orthodox Christians, and quite early in their history they adopted a religious ideology in their struggle against those of other faiths. Their acceptance of the Muscovite protectorate in 1654 was also influenced by their religious ideas. In this pioneering study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicisim helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.
Author : Shane O'Rourke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073985593
This book covers 500 years of the history of the Cossacks -- the recklessly brave, wild horsemen, or the romantic hero of the steppe, or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history. A lucid and engaging book that conveys the passion, exuberance and tragedy of these extraordinary people, it will be enjoyed by students, scholars and general readers interested in Russian history.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cossacks
ISBN : UCSD:31822031986268
Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy examines the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts.
Author : Oleg Rumyantsev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 8867050508
Exploring alternatives in East European history. The battle that took place near Konotop in late June 1659 was a continuation of the Muscovite-Cossack war, which began in the fall of 1658, soon after the signing of the Union of Hadiach. Cossack and Tatar detachments trapped a significant portion of the Muscovite army, leading to enormous Russian losses.