Cossacks in Art

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia
Historically, they were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people who were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service.
They inhabited sparsely populated areas in the Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins, and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Ukraine and parts of R...