A Georgian Cossack Chief
Hutchinson`s History of the Nations 1915 - The Cossacks, a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christian people, who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semimilitary communities, originating in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural River basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development both of Ukraine and of Russia.
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