[More Cossacks in the news]
Yes, “Cossacks” have been in the news since the late days of Gorbachev, but I’m not sure if they could be taken seriously and if yes, whether they are related to historical Cossacks. It seems to me that the societal…
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
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Putin’s administration has submitted a bill on Cossack troops to the Duma
RIA Novosti explains: The Cossacks are a military estate that existed in Russia before the revolution of 1917 and served in border areas. Russia’s Cossacks numbered more than 4.4 million in 1916. There were 11 Cossack military formations in the…
Comment on comment: Cossacks, Peter, Ukraine, etc.
Sometimes I don’t follow up on readers’ comments at once but wait until I am ready to give a reasoned reply. Today, let me get back to this comment. I think an interesting difference between Ukraine and Russia is that…
More on *The Cossacks*
I have read it. I am a fast reader, and this short novel turned out, unexpectedly of course, captivating. Actually, there are two classes of Cossacks in the novel. One is the settlers, the focus of the author’s inquiry and…
[The Cossacks]
Kevin Kinsella runs a most interesting entry with a priceless link. Now that you have finished reading it, I have a few words to add. Synthia Ozick’s article on Tolstoy’s The Cossacks (a novel I have not read) is summarized…