#don cossacks

[songs-of-the-east]

Elderly Nekrasov Cossacks.

The Nekrasov Cossacks are descendants of Don Cossack Old Believers who left Imperial Russia and sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire, first in the Black Sea coast of Romania and then in Northern Turkey.

[proustianlesbian]

so, i don't really like doing this since this is a bit like throwing a bottle in the sea and i should have done this way sooner but i still try :

if you are russian (or ukrainian or belarussian or even just if you know anything about this subject) and speaks english, can you help me, please ?

i am a history student making a presentation tomorrow about the cossack yemelyan ivanovich pugachev (Емельян Иванович Пугачёв) and i couldn't really find much about his perception in today's russia (except in bashkortostan) so i would like to know :

what is the general opinion about Pugachev today ?

is he and his revolt taught at school and if so, is it studied a lot or just mentionned

is the memory of pugachev and the rebellion source of conflicts / political disagreements today ?

i ask about today because i have enough info on both imperial and soviet eras. i don't have very specific questions, but i hope they are understandable, please comment under my post if you have any answer :)) !!

given that my presentation is tomorrow (i know i should have posted sooner) i will edit this to tell anyone coming accross it later that it's over.

[eaglet-if]

HELP! OPINIONS NEEDED!

Is the cap shown above blue with red accents or red with blue accents?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Toronto Cheered Don Cossack Choir," Kingston Whig-Standard. October 12, 1933. Page 2. --- Famous Russian Musical Organization Will Sing at Kingston ---- The Don Cossack, Russian Male Chorus, composed of thirty-six former officers of General Wrangel's White Army, under the dynamic direction of the most vital leader, Sergecoff, will be heard in one of their unique concerts at the K. C.V.I. auditorium on Monday, October 30th.

This is undoubtedly, in the opinion of the critics, the most stirring chorus ever to appear in America. Kingston owes the good fortune of having the Cossacks to the fact that they are returning to Toronto for the sixth time in three years, and since they sing in Montreal first, their fourth concert there, they have been persuaded to stop in Kingston on the way. The concert will be given under the joint auspices of the Kingston Art and Music Club and the George Richardson Bequest Committee.

Reviewing the Cossacks' first concert in Toronto, Augustus Bridle stated in the Daily Star: "No word can describe such singing. We have heard many great choirs, never one so amazing as this. Here was the fabulous Russian unaccompanied at its sheer climax of tonal expression. They set the gallery and ground floor cheering."

Tickets for this concert will be on sale at Grinham's Book Shop beginning Tuesday, October 24th.

[werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrcat]

My favorite cossack choir solist🙏

[alexxx-malev]

Russia. Novocherkassk. Museum of the History of the Don Cossacks Новочеркасск. Музей истории Донского казачества

[nicklloydnow]

“'Tell me this, Yefim Ivanich. What about the Bolsheviks? Have they got things right or not?'

Jerking up his eyebrow and wrinkling his nose humorously, Izvarin gave a chuckle.

‘Got things right? Ha-ha . . . You’re like a newborn babe, my dear fellow. The Bolsheviks have their program, their prospects and aspirations. The Bolsheviks are right from their point of view, and we are right from ours. D'you know what the Bolshevik Party is actually called? No? But surely you should know that? The Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party! Understand? The Workers! At the moment they are flirting with the peasants and Cossacks, but the main thing with them is the working class. They'll bring liberation to the working class and a new, perhaps even worse, oppression to the peasantry. In real life it never works out that everyone gets an equal share. If the Bolsheviks get the upper hand, it'll be good for the workers and bad for the rest of us. If the monarchy returns, it'll be good for the landowners and the like, and bad for the rest. We don't want either. What we need is our own form of government, and above all to be rid of all political guardians, whether it's Kornilov, Kerensky or Lenin. We'll manage on our own lands without these figureheads - God spare us from our friends and we'll deal with our enemies ourselves.'

'But most of the Cossacks feel drawn towards the Bolsheviks. D'you know that?'

‘Grisha, old chum, try to grasp the main thing. Now the Cossacks and the peasants are going the same way as the Bolsheviks. Do you know why?'

'Because . . . ‘ Izvarin wriggled his nose until it was almost round, and laughed ‘Because the Bolsheviks are for peace, for immediate peace, and the Cossacks are absolutely fed up with war!’

He gave himself a ringing slap on his taut brown neck and, straightening his raised eyebrow, cried, 'That's why the Cossacks have a smell of Bolshevism about them and are keeping in step with the Bolsheviks. But! But as soon as the war's over and the Bolsheviks reach out to grab the Cossacks' land, the roads of the Cossacks and the Bolsheviks will part! That's proven and historically inevitable. Between the existing structure of Cossack life and socialism - the ultimate form of the Bolshevist revolution - there is an impassable abyss.’

‘What I say is,' Grigory mumbled, 'that I don't understand a thing. I can't make head or tail of it. I'm as lost as if I'd been caught out in the steppe in a snowstorm.'

‘You won't get out of it as easily as that! Life will make you sort things out. It'll force you to take sides.'” (p. 476, 477)

[mary-maud]

Our troop commander gave the order and we turned and went at them. We smashed them. Rode them down. What cavalry in the world can stand up against Cossacks?

[yuyuvasya02]

VASILYY VASYA VASYATKA…. Vasyatka (hes about to fall…)

Golden kamuy ocs letsss gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

They’re idiots… AND THEY ARE DON COSSACKS!!!!!!!! They’re together don’t divide them

actually idiot is the yellow one his name is Semion… Idk how to write the transcription of this name🫡 (We made them for fun so his surname sounds way worse..)

The one with blue eyes is Devyatkin (actually it’s a surname but no one knows his name)(he told it to Semion once but it was too hard for his 20iq brain and his memory blocked it)

Devyatkin is really smart but doesn’t talk much because of trauma and autism 😌😌😌 his mother drown herself and his favorite word is あ(а) and all his family died (partly because of him) (average Don Cossack family)💃💃💃

Я нормальная честно

[atcharachara]

Just a colored sketch page for now, no rendering. Russian dragons. Not up to scale (don’t trust that visual on the right)

Of these, only the Russian Gray and Ironwing are named in the book (The Gray only in LoD). Both the Ironwing and Cossack dragon didn’t come with descriptions of any sort so I just winged it. Thoughts under the cut.

Russian Heavyweight - Big, green, and mean. Well, Vosyem was green, so this guy is green. Overlapping plates made me lean more on pangolin scales than thyreophoran but doing all the scales is killing me. I gave it a large nasal boss(I think thats the term?) to resemble the tapir-faced depictions of Zmei that had enraptured me since I was young.

The tortoise resemblance was not realized until after I colored everything, but theres only so many ways for long neck and humped back and thick rolls over shoulders read to me. Well, there’s the sauropod type but I prefer a more sprawling pose. I do want it a bit longer but I just like long dragons in general. Need to hold back on it. If everything is long then nothing is Long.

Russian Gray - Mostly gray and white with a narrow arrow-shaped head. They were described as stippled with spots of gray and black. I had on my notes that it was six to seven, but I lacked context on whether it was the number of individuals in the scene or its weight.

Heads being described as arrow shaped confuse me a little. Maybe my English is not good because I keep thinking it’s like… diplocaulus, which is NOT narrow. Yu-Lung, described with the same head shape, was also described to be vulpine, so that’s what I did here.

Russian Black - One of the other lightweights held in the Russian grounds along with the Russian Gray. Described as black dragons smaller than the Grays. Resembles the Russian couriers. Nothing much to say. Slavic dragons seem to be depicted with a crown every so often, so I gave it a crown of small horns.

Every time there’s a black dragon breed from Europe I keep remembering Laurence saying something about how there’s no black dragons known in Europe back when he was still a Naval captain.

Courier - Two red courier dragons were snoozing next to a flag. I’m inclined to think it’s a Russian breed, but it described the flag they were sleeping beside as white and red. Granted, I’m not really familiar with European history or flags. Maybe it’s a company flag?

Cossack - No description other than being courier weight or fly weight, the size of winchesters. Did you know that the Russian Don, cavalry horses of the Cossack, originated from Russian Steppe horses and Oriental breeds obtained from raids? I gave it a more camelid head, but didn’t want the horse inspiration to be too obvious. Not happy with the coloration just yet.

I kinda wanted it to be slightly bigger for some size variety, but it’s unlikely to be that much bigger than the other Russian lightweights. In the British (European?) weight system a flyweight is barely combat weight, isn’t it? So larger than courier weight but not that much…

Ironwing - Venomous. Thats it for textual description. Not much to go off of, so I put a lesser version of the heavyweight armor on it to help bridge the heavyweight to the others and slapped rusty iron colors. I wanted to give it some more resemblance(Is that the word?)for being an ancestor of the Longwing, so I gave it some familiar wing markings. Might add bone spurs but maybe I should keep that a sharpspitter thing.

[masochnik]

Melekhov | Cossack

The Land, The Family

"The Silent Don"

[ohsalome]

Today, on August 23th, Ukraine celebrates our National Flag Day :) To celebrate the occasion, let me share a few fun facts about our flag 🇺🇦:

The most common symbolic interpretation of the colors is that blue stands for the clear sky and golden-yellow stands for the fields of wheat. This symbolism is important for us as we are largely an agricultural society and have some of the most fertile soil on Earth, making us an important grain exporter since the times of ancient history. There also once was a religious interpretation of the colors, but it didn't stick.

However, the origin of the colors is much more trivial: they come from the heraldic coat of arms of Lviv city, which became the capital of Rus'/Kyivan Rus'/Ruthenia* after Kyiv fell to the Golden Horde (I am oversimplifying for the sake of brevity), thus dating this color combo back to at least 1256). The founder of Lviv, king Danylo of Galicia, is also known to be the first and only Ruthenian* king crowned by the Pope, which was the conventional claim to legitemacy back then. Somehow he managed to achieve that without converting to catolicism nor contributing to the crusades.

There is a neverending popular debate about the proper order of the colors in the flag: blue on top or yellow on top. One of the most popular arguments is the XX century pictures that showcase what seems like a 🇺🇦 flag with yellow on top; however, this misunderstanding largely comes frome the fact that the black-and-white cameras of that time made yellow colors appear darker than blue. Some people also argue that the flag should be flipped over because of feng shui.

During the soviet times, owning a 🇺🇦 flag was a criminal offence that could lead you to up to 2 years of prison time.

In the current russo-ukrainian war the 🇺🇦 remains a symbol of freedom and resistance to russian occupation. During the occupation of Kherson region, people would tie blue and yellow ribbons in public spaces to showcase that they do not yield to ru occupants. Although this act seems small in the grand scale of things, even such resistance was extremely dangerous if caught - owning any ukrainian symbols is a reason enough for russians to accuse you of being a spy and send you to torture basement. The start of the popular movement is attributed to Nisar Akhmad - a ukrainian activist of Afgani origin.

Even before the full-scale invasion, the flag was used as a symbol of resisting russian occupation - back in 2019 on the Constitution Day a 🇺🇦 flag was raised in the center of occupied Donetsk - an act that would, simply put, doom you with a death sentence in the russia-orchestrated terrorist quasi-respublics. The willingness of the people to risk their life for this act of resistance showcases how empty the russian propaganda about ''russian Donbas'' really is. Donetsk waits for ukrainian liberation to this day.

One of the most worldwide famous ukrainian pictures, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilja Repin is full of ukrainian sybolism and "easter eggs"; including the ukrainian flag sneaked into the picture - you can see it in the top left quarter on one of the spears. This is historically accurate, as Zaporozhian Cossacks would often don the blue-and-yellow colors when going into battle. The picture itself is full of symbolism and political commentary, and, frankly said, deserves a full post of its own - but to put it short, Ilya Repin, who is often presented as a ''russian artist'' by russians, is actually a descendant of ukrainian cossacks, and has modeled all of the people on the picture on important Ukrainian political figers. And the picture itself was written in response to the Ems Decree - the law that banned ukrainian language from public use in the cultural sphere. If you haven't yet experienced the dramatic reading of the letter in question, narrated by one and only Peter Capaldi, please treat yourself and watch it today.

*Rus' (Русь) is the name of the medieval country in the Eastern Europe that was vaguely centered around the territory of modern Ukraine. If you are confused about the name and how is Rus' different from russia - this confusion is intentional. The chiefdom of muscowy, which was founded at least 400 years after the foundation of Kyivan Rus' and was the vassal of the Golden Horde for the most part, has appropriated the name (''Ρωσία'' is just a greek version of ''rus'') to falsify the inheritance of the high crown of Kyiv, which in actuality has gone to the western branch of the bloodline through Danylo of Galych to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (once again, oversimplifying very long and complex history for the sake of brevity). muscovies haven't been using the term ''russia'' to describe themselves before the 15th century, and all the earlier mentions of this term chronicled by foreign sources (e.g., the Byzantine empire) refer to the Kyivan Rus'.

[usssnarfblat]

Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?

[masha-nikita]

German painter of the Red Army- Herbert KNOTEL (cont.)

Previous entry with introduction, please see here.

1945 Major General of the Tank Corps 1945 Air Force General 1945 Artillery Corporal

Commander of the Special Forces Unit in 1945 ("Some asshole stole me and my wife’s watch!") 1945 Colonel of the Signal Corps 1945 Mortarman

1945 Veterinary Department Pvt. 1945 Kuban Cossack Cavalry Captain 1945 Kuban Cossack Captain

1945 Don Cossacks 1945 Cavalry Captain Woman seen at a theater event in January 1946, possibly an A-list artist.

[thomasthetankieengine]

Awww, what a good first step. You're right to recognize that the United States was formed in blood. Now that you've learned that, you've got a lot more reading to do about the history of ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism. You can pick any of the following topics

Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Asiatic Vespers

Roman destruction of Carthage

Roman expulsion of the Jews from Judaea

Mitma

Edict of Expulsion

Baltic Germans

Conquest of the Canary Islands

Alhambra Decree

Russian conquest of Siberia

Plantations of Ireland

Dzungar genocide

Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and Act of Settlement

Expulsion of the Acadians

Chinese conquests of Xinjiang and Tibet

Circassian genocide

Expulsion of the Albanians, 1830–1876 and 1877–1878

Pale of Settlement

Prussian deportations

Herero and Namaqua genocide

Ethnic cleansings during the Balkan Wars

1914 Greek deportations

Armenian genocide

Greek genocide

Bolshevik deportations of the Don Cossacks

Pacification of Libya

1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Simele massacre of 1933

Deportation of Soviet Koreans

Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Independent State of Croatia's massacres of Serbs, Jews, and Roma

The Holocaust

Porajmos

Expulsion of Cham Albanians

Partition of India

Istrian–Dalmatian exodus

Jammu Massacre

Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria

Istanbul pogrom

1962 Rajshahi massacres

1964 East Pakistan riots

Arab Belt program

Cambodian genocide

Revival Process

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Halabja massacre

1991 Altun Kupri massacre

Palestinian exodus from Kuwait

South Ossetia War

Ossetian–Ingush conflict

Khojaly massacre

Ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian wars

May 1998 riots of Indonesia

Assyrian exodus from Iraq

2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra

2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes

2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots

Yazidi genocide

Rohinyga genocide

War in Tigray

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Blockade of Nagorno-Karbakh

The sooner you divest yourself of the delusion that ANY nation-state arose naturally and was formed easily or bloodlessly, the smarter you'll be. They ain't nothing natural or peaceful about the way that any part of Europe, Africa, or Asia is today.

[mapsontheweb]

Temporary states during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922)

Anders Kvernberg (Oslo, 2018)

via cartesdhistoire

The Russian civil war (Oct. 1917-summer 1922) pitted Reds (communists), Whites (tsarists led by Wrangel, Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenitch) & Greens (armies of peasants facing Whites & Reds) against each other. In this chaos, many states have a brief independent life.

The largest is the Far Eastern Republic, a Bolshevik puppet state (from which Green Ukraine seceded). The smallest are the Republic of Perloja, limited to a Lithuanian village, presided over by a veteran of the Tsarist army, & the Soviet Republic of Naissaar, proclaimed in a fort on an Estonian island in December. 1917 by 82 Bolshevik sailors (hunted by the Germans on February 24, 1918).

The German occupiers signed a first treaty in Brest-Litovsk on February 9. 1918 with Ukraine then a second on March 3 with the Bolsheviks. Germany seizes Poland, Lithuania & Courland while Finland, Estonia, Latvia & Ukraine become independent under German control.

The Ukrainian People's Republic (non-Bolshevik), autonomous since the spring of 1917, was overthrown by the coup d'état of the conservative general Skoropadsky. With German support, he established the Hetmanate (April–Dec. 1918) and was then ousted from power during an uprising led by Simon Petliura & his (non-Bolshevik) Ukrainian People's Army. The Ukrainian republic was restored until 1921, not without first having to fight the libertarian Ukraine (or Makhnovshchina), a revolutionary peasant movement led by Nestor Makhno, who capitulated to the Bolsheviks in August 1921. Other states on Ukrainian territory are the Bolshevik Republic of Odessa, the Lemko Republic, the Komańcza Republic (or Eastern Lemko Republic) & the Hutsul Republic. At the same time, in the east of Ukraine, the anti-Bolshevik Don Cossack Republic was formed.

No state survived the creation of the USSR on December 30. 1922.