After Russia invaded the Danubian Principalities, British and French fleets were positioned to aid Turkey in the event of war. Honoré Daumier. Actualités, no. 28; Les Cosaques pour rire (Laughing at ...

Russia's army has been heavily recruiting soldiers from its ethnic minorities, who make up around 20% of the country's ...

Russian Cossacks who are marching on Paris as part of a campaign to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Russia’s 1812 Patriotic War against Napoleon have made their first stop in France ...

Cossacks were known as servants of the state or, in Russian - Sluzhilyye Lyudi. These servants of the state played a key role in Siberian settlement by Russians. The Cossacks, a translation of the ...

The impact of foreign countries on the Civil War was minimal for a number of reasons: World War One had ended in 1918, resulting in a lack of commitment to Russia With the threat of Germany gone ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks ... the rule of czarist Russia, and the current Ukrainian Army. “You can’t understand this war if you don’t understand the ...