The Cossacks : their history and country

W. P. (William Penn) Cresson

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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2008 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/cossackstlieirliisOOcresuoft THE COSSACKS THEm HISTORY AND COUNTRY ^T^l ILr COSSACKS r THEIR fflSTORY AND COUNTRY BY W. P. CRESSON CAPTAIN A. E. P., FOBMERLY SECRETARY OPLATE AMERICAN EMBASSY AT PETROGBaDTHE AUTHOR OP "Persia" 437743 VIS. 9. 45 NEW YORK BRENTANO'S 1919 r COPYRIGHTED, IQIQ, BY BRENTANO'S All rights reserved TBB-FI.IUPTON -FKESS NORWOOD -MASS -U-S -A irr BROTHERTO EMLEN VAUX CRESSON TEHERAN-BAGDADJOUBNEY ALONG THXA. BEMINDEB OF OXTR TBAUi, 1900.CARAVAN CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Origin of the "Free People" 1 II. The Zaporogian Cossacks 21 III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia 44 IV« BoGDAN Hmelnicky: a Cossack National Hero 65 V. The Struggle for the Ukraine 93 "VI. Mazeppa 104 VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia 129 viii. pougatchev 145 IX. The Hetman Platov 170 X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization AND Government 196 XI. The Cossacks of To-day : The Don 209 XII. The Frontiers of Europe 222 ILLUSTRATIONS Zaporogian Cossacks Frontispiece The old defenders of the Polish and Russian fron- tiers against the Tartars writing a letter of deftance the Sultan.

Sujets

• Cossacks
• Russia
• Ukraine
• HIStory
• Zaporizhia (region)

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive
in 2008 witii funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
littp://www.arcliive.org/details/cossackstlieirliisOOcresuoftTHE COSSACKS
THEm HISTORY AND COUNTRY