Cossacks Collection (page 2)

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

Les Aigles du Tsar; Officiers cosaques du corps des Partisans, 1915. Creator: L.H Grondijs
Les Aigles du Tsar; Officiers cosaques du corps des Partisans. 1915. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

La Diversion Russe; Les Avant-Gardes Cosaques, 1914. Creator: Georges Bertin Scott
La Diversion Russe; Les Avant-Gardes Cosaques, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

Sur le front Russe; le colonel commandant les eclaireurs cosaques, 1916 Creator: Unknown
Sur le front Russe; le colonel commandant les eclaireurs cosaques, attaches au 5e regiment siberien lit a ses cavaliers le telegramme annoncant les premiers succes de l'offensive

Wounded French Attacked by a Cossack, 1817. Creators: Emile Jean-Horace Vernet, Hippolyte Lecomte
Wounded French Attacked by a Cossack, 1817

Infantry Ambush against the Cossacks, 1818. Creator: Emile Jean-Horace Vernet
Infantry Ambush against the Cossacks, 1818

Hussard Striking a Cossack. Creator: Carle Vernet
Hussard Striking a Cossack

Uniform of the Russian Army - First Division of Cavalry, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Uniform of the Russian Army - First Division of Cavalry, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Types of the Circassian Races, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Types of the Circassian Races, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Irregular Troops; The Russian Army c1854, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Irregular Troops; The Russian Army c1854, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Prince Paskewitsch; The Russian People 1854, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Prince Paskewitsch; The Russian People 1854, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

The Siege of Sebastopol - Valley of Inkerman, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Siege of Sebastopol - Valley of Inkerman, 1854. Crimean War. Landscape around the besieged Black Sea port, showing: English Sentries; Ruins of Inkerman; Cossack Field Guns; River Inkerman...The

Cossack, You Have Only One Path, 1919. Creator: Moor, Dmitri Stachievich (1883-1946)
Cossack, You Have Only One Path, 1919. Private Collection

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Occupation russe à Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Creator: Opiz, Georg Emanuel (1775-1841)
Occupation russe a Paris (Russian Cossacks in Paris, 1814), 1814-1817. Found in the Collection of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Sheet with Stumped Sketch, 1839. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Sheet with Stumped Sketch, 1839

Cossack Bodyguards of the Line, Kuban, Taman, Détroit de Yéni-Kaleb, October 9, 1837, 1846. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Cossack Bodyguards of the Line, Kuban, Taman, Detroit de Yeni-Kaleb, October 9, 1837, 1846

Cossack Escort to the Border of Kuban, Taman (Central Russia), October 11, 1837, 1838. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Cossack Escort to the Border of Kuban, Taman (Central Russia), October 11, 1837, 1838

Illustration for the poem "Suzga", 1862-1887. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
Illustration for the poem "Suzga", 1862-1887. From an album of 32 original watercolors from the library of Tsar Nicholas II

The Staff of the Expedition: Doctor Grinevetskii, the Official Dmitriev, the Foreman... 1889. Creator: Unknown
The Staff of the Expedition: Doctor Grinevetskii, the Official Dmitriev, the Foreman Pavlov, and Nine Cossacks, 1889. From a collection consisting of an album

Lineynyy Cossack, 1862. Creator: A Derzhanovskii
Lineynyy Cossack, 1862. Sheet 9 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world, c1899. Creator: Unknown
Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world, c1899. Circus poster showing Cossacks in battle on horseback, and head-and-shoulders portraits of Buffalo Bill and Nate Salsbury

George Kennan wearing Georgian cossak uniform, half-length portrait... between 1870 and 1886. Creator: Unknown
George Kennan wearing Georgian cossack uniform, half-length portrait, facing left, between 1870 and 1886

Ural Cossack (in the steppes), 1862. Creator: Karpov
Ural Cossack (in the steppes), 1862. Sheet 8 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Cossacks (Uralka, Ural, Donetsk, Chernomoret), 1862. Creator: Karlis Huns
Cossacks (Uralka, Ural, Donetsk, Chernomoret), 1862. Sheet 7 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Fishermen on the Lake Zaisan, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Fishermen on the Lake Zaisan, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host)

Fishmen on the Lake Zaisan, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Fishmen on the Lake Zaisan, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host)

In the Arithmetic Lesson, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
In the Arithmetic Lesson, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Fishermen on Lake Zaisan, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Fishermen on Lake Zaisan, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host)

Children's Formation, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Children's Formation, 1909. From Tipy postroek v stanitsakh Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Types of construction in the villages of the Siberian Cossack Host)

Cossack women are women, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack women are women, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Krasnoyarsk Cossack, 1904. Creator: Boris Vasilievich Smirnov
Krasnoyarsk Cossack, 1904. Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia

A New Type of Cart, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
A New Type of Cart, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Untitled Photograph, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Untitled Photograph, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host), one of three albums depicting the territories

School Gymnastics, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
School Gymnastics, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

School Gymnastics, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
School Gymnastics, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home), one of three albums depicting the territories

Spreading of fish, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Spreading of fish, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host), one of three albums depicting the territories

On the Biisk Line Between the Settlements of Kliuchi and Andreevsk: View on the Biisk Link... 1909
On the Biisk Line Between the Settlements of Kliuchi and Andreevsk: View on the Biisk Link in Tomsk Province, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska

Great-grandfather, grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Great-grandfather, grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Dragging Out a Sweep-Net: Fishing on Lake Zaisan, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Dragging Out a Sweep-Net: Fishing on Lake Zaisan, 1909. This image is from Vidy territorii Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Views of the territory of the Siberian Cossack Host)

Cossack Village Girls. Kokchetavskii Uezd, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack Village Girls. Kokchetavskii Uezd, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Cossack Women of Presnogor'kovsk Village, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Cossack Women of Presnogor'kovsk Village, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

Church of the Karkaralinskaia Village, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Church of the Karkaralinskaia Village, 1909. From Tipy postroek v stanitsakh Sibirskogo kazach'ego voiska (Types of construction in the villages of the Siberian Cossack Host)

Saban. Wooden and Metal Ploughs, 1909. Creator: Nikolai Georgievich Katanaev
Saban. Wooden and Metal Ploughs, 1909. This image is from Tipy kazakov: Sibirskie kazaki na sluzhbe i doma (Types of Cossacks: Siberian Cossacks on duty and at home)

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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.