Cossacks Collection

The Cossacks Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy), c1890, (1939). Creator: Il ya Repin
The Cossacks Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy), c1890, (1939). Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto

Painting in Cossack Museum, Zaporozhye, Ukraine
A painting in the Cossack Museum on Khortytsaya Island, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, depicting an Ottoman enemy (possibly the Sultan) making a proclamation, probably a 17th century event

Junker of the Life-Guards Caucasian-Mountain squadron, 1829. Artist: Belousov, Lev Alexandrovich (1806-1864)
Junker of the Life-Guards Caucasian-Mountain squadron, 1829. Private Collection

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1880-91. Oil on canvas. Ilya Repin (1844-1930) Russian artist

Wwi / Russians / Caucasus
Russians skirmish with Turkish forces in the Caucasus mountains

Detail of the Zaporozhets writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan, 1880-1890, (1965). Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey

Arnault as Menzaroff in "Les Cosaques" at the Theatre de la Gaite
5855460 Arnault as Menzaroff in "Les Cosaques" at the Theatre de la Gaite.; (add.info.: Arnault as Menzaroff in "Les Cosaques" at the Theatre de la Gaite)

Costumes of the Cossacks 1,2, Chernomorets Cossack 5, Ural Cossack 6, Albanian 12 and Black Sea Cossack 13
FLO4624783 Costumes of the Cossacks 1,2, Chernomorets Cossack 5, Ural Cossack 6, Albanian 12 and Black Sea Cossack 13. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre

Napoleon Bonaparte escaping out of a window as the front door is smashed in by Russian Cossacks after the Battle of
FLO4608646 Napoleon Bonaparte escaping out of a window as the front door is smashed in by Russian Cossacks after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813

Russian Cossacks during WWI (litho)
3252931 Russian Cossacks during WWI (litho); Private Collection; (add.info.: Russian Cossacks during WWI. From The War Illustrated Album Deluxe, published 1915.); Photo © Hilary Morgan.

Prussian Lancers and Cossacks fighting French troops. 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut)
543825 Prussian Lancers and Cossacks fighting French troops. 19th century (french popular hand-coloured woodcut); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910
3520947 Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910 by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Kuban Cossack woman)

Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910
3520936 Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910 by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Kuban Cossack woman)

Russian Cossacks on the march during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). From Russes et Turcs, La Guerre D'Orient
6867188 Russian Cossacks on the march during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). From Russes et Turcs, La Guerre D'Orient

The End of the Provisional Government; Lenin's Red Guard on the streets of Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo)
3331003 The End of the Provisional Government; Lenin's Red Guard on the streets of Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Photograph of members of the Red Guards)

Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910
3520942 Kuban Cossack woman, in traditional dress in Tsarist Russia circa 1910 by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Kuban Cossack woman)

Napoleon I during the Russian Campaign in 1812. During the advance towards Moscow
FGL5459850 Napoleon I during the Russian Campaign in 1812. During the advance towards Moscow, the French emperor confronted a troop of Cossacks. Lithograph of the time.; Fototeca Gilardi.

The battalions of the Batumi army disembarking at Trabzon aka Trebizond, Turkey
6867189 The battalions of the Batumi army disembarking at Trabzon aka Trebizond, Turkey, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)

Kuban Cossack Russian family in Tsarist Russia circa 1910
3520932 Kuban Cossack Russian family in Tsarist Russia circa 1910; (add.info.: Kuban Cossack Russian family in Tsarist Russia circa 1910.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Attempt of the Russian Cossacks to capture Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Brienne, France, 1814
3062121 Attempt of the Russian Cossacks to capture Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Brienne, France, 1814.; Private Collection; (add.info)

Diverse nations of the Russian Empire: Siberians, Tongusians (tungouze, tungounse), Kalmyks (kalmouk), Tartars (Tatar)
FLO4722211 Diverse nations of the Russian Empire: Siberians, Tongusians (tungouze, tungounse), Kalmyks (kalmouk), Tartars (Tatar), Finns (Finnish), Cossacks, etc

Alexis of Russia, 17th (engraving)
3507337 Alexis of Russia, 17th (engraving); (add.info.: Portrait of Alexis of Russia (1629-1676) Tsar of Russia during the major Cossack revolt of Stenka Razin

Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Marauding Cossacks in a Korean village terrifying the local population.1904
530190 Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Marauding Cossacks in a Korean village terrifying the local population.1904.; Universal History Archive/UIG.

Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Tsar NIicholas II (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia from 1894, reviewing Cossacks
530180 Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905: Tsar NIicholas II (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia from 1894, reviewing Cossacks. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 28 February 1904.; Universal History Archive/UIG.

How the Bolsheviks behave in the Cossack villages (White Guard poster), c.1918-1919. Creator: Unknown artist
How the Bolsheviks behave in the Cossack villages (White Guard poster), c.1918-1919. Private Collection

A group at the Great Annual Fair at Nijni Novgorod, Central Russia, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A group at the Great Annual Fair at Nijni Novgorod, Central Russia, 1864. In the centre '...is a Tartar trader of importance, weary of half an hour's beating about the bush

Siberian Cossack army 1582-1911, 1911. Creator: A. A. Antonov
Siberian Cossack army 1582-1911, 1911. From a collection of photographs documenting the First West Siberian Agricultural, Forestry, and Industrial Trade Exhibition, which took place in Omsk in 1911

We Will Sit by the Sea, We Will Wait for the Weather!, 1904. Creator: Unknown
We Will Sit by the Sea, We Will Wait for the Weather!, 1904. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements and a set of posters from the era of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

1st Cossack Skirmish with the Japanese in Korea, 1904. Creator: Unknown
1st Cossack Skirmish with the Japanese in Korea, 1904. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements and a set of posters from the era of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

Skirmish of the Cossack Light Mounted Patrol with the Japanese in Korea, 1904. Creator: Unknown
Skirmish of the Cossack Light Mounted Patrol with the Japanese in Korea, 1904. This collection includes tsarist-era advertisements and a set of posters from the era of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

A group of military Cossacks, 1880. Creator: Unknown
A group of military Cossacks, 1880. From a collection of 153 photographs and documents held in the Berdsk Historical Art Museum

Krasnoyarsk Cossack cavalry sotnya, 1880. Creator: Unknown
Krasnoyarsk Cossack cavalry sotnya, 1880. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Vasily Ivanovich Yanenko - commander of the Krasnoyarsk Mounted Cossack Hundred., 1890. Creator: Unknown
Vasily Ivanovich Yanenko - commander of the Krasnoyarsk Mounted Cossack Hundred., 1890. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late

Elegant Lady Dressed as a Cossack and Holding a Hunting Falcon. Creator: Sorin, Saveli Abramovich (1878-1953)
Elegant Lady Dressed as a Cossack and Holding a Hunting Falcon. Private Collection.

'Cossack of the Line; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Cossack of the Line; The Caucasus, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

'Djighitoffka Cossacks; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Djighitoffka Cossacks; The Caucasus, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

La Revolution Russe; Le Grand-Duc Michel, frere du tsar, sous l'uniforme des cosaques... 1917. Creator: Unknown
La Revolution Russe; Le Grand-Duc Michel, frere du tsar, sous l'uniforme des cosaques qu'il commandait en Galicie, 1917

Attack between Cossacks of Crimea and French Riding Artillery, 1817. Creator: Jan Antony Langendijk
Attack between Cossacks of Crimea and French Riding Artillery, 1817

Cossack; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Cossack; The Caucasus, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Cossack's at shooting practice; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Cossack's at shooting practice; The Caucasus, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Cossack watch-tower; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Cossack watch-tower; The Caucasus, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Cossacks on the love path, c.1814-c.1815. Creator: Adrien Pierre François Godefroy the Younger
Cossacks on the love path, c.1814-c.1815. Les Cosaques en Bonne fortune'. Russians meet French women

Cossack Bivouac, 1813, 1813-1814. Creator: Louis Moritz
Cossack Bivouac, 1813, 1813-1814

An Incident in the Present War - painted by Sovrieul, in the exhibition of pictures of the French Sc Creator: Unknown
An Incident in the Present War - painted by Sovrieul, in the exhibition of pictures of the French School, 1856. In the picture which we engrave this week from the facile

Cossacks on a country Road near Bergen in North Holland, 1813, 1813-1815. Creator: Pieter Gerardus van Os
Cossacks on a country Road near Bergen in North Holland, 1813, 1813-1815

Cossack Outpost in 1813, 1813-1815. Creator: Pieter Gerardus van Os
Cossack Outpost in 1813, 1813-1815

Maniére d'entrainer les cosaques, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Maniere d'entrainer les cosaques, 19th century. How to train the Cossacks

Sur le front de Pologne; une charge des Cosaques de l'oural, sur une batterie allemande, 1914. Creator: J Simont
'Sur le front de Pologne; une charge des Cosaques de l'oural, sur une batterie d'artillerie allemande, pendant l'offensive russe du 16 octobre au 6 novembre 1914, 1914

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The Cossacks, a proud and fierce group of warriors, have left an indelible mark on history. Their resilience and bravery are beautifully captured in the painting "The Cossacks Reply to the Sultan" by Il ya Repin, which can be found in the Cossack Museum in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. In this masterpiece, created around 1890, we witness a powerful scene depicting the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV during the late 17th century. The detail and emotion portrayed by Repin transport us back to that pivotal moment when these fearless men stood their ground against an empire. Another remarkable artwork showcasing the life of a Cossack is Lev Alexandrovich Belousov's depiction of a Junker from the Life-Guards Caucasian-Mountain squadron. Painted in 1829, it offers us insight into their distinctive uniforms and military prowess. Throughout history, these formidable soldiers played significant roles in various conflicts. From World War I to campaigns in Poland and Russia's Caucasus region during WWI, they proved themselves as formidable fighters with unwavering loyalty. Not limited to warfare alone, there were also cultural aspects associated with being a Cossack. A captivating photograph from circa 1900 showcases a Circassian dressed traditionally—a testament to their rich heritage and unique customs. Furthermore, we catch glimpses of everyday life through restored reproductions like that of a watchtower on the Kuban River in Russia's Caucasus region—an important symbol of protection for both locals and passing travelers alike. Poetry has even immortalized their valorous spirit; as seen in "Cossack and Russian reel'd from sabre stroke, " excerpted from Ballads of Famous Fights' first edition published in 1920—depicting their unyielding determination amidst battle. From historical paintings to photographs capturing moments in time, the legacy of the Cossacks lives on.