Good article. It reminds me of the tidbit I came across in The Cossacks, that there were Scots in the Cossack ranks. (Along with Spaniards, Frenchmen, a few Englishmen, etc...)
Yeah, the cossacks were quite a fascinating lot. I've been reading a couple of Yahoo lists, one called Pan Mark and another called Czarnieckiego, and the cossacks have been coming up a good deal on both. The extent to which their historiography plays into a lot of current international tensions (Russia/Poland/Ukraine/Belarus) makes it all the more interesting (if much less clear).
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I've been reading about Cossacks this last year or so because I have a notion to write about them. But my interest in them goes back to when I was in high school reading Harold Lamb's stories about Khlit, the old Cossack who wandered all over central Asia after he got too old to ride with the Zaparozhian host.
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