Kazaki - The Cossacks of Russia

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Cossack--- the word meaning guerilla or adventurer- first came from the Ukrainian Stepps that begin north of the Black sea and the Caucasus Mountians. The orgin of the cossacks can be traced to serfs who fled from the principality of Moscow in the 14th and 15th centuries and established wheat-growing and stock-raising communities in the valleys of the Dnepr, Don and Ural rivers. The individual cossack communities owned land in common. The cossack communities were governed by village assemblies, presided over elected village elders called atamans or hetmans. The chieftain of a region enjoyed great prestige and exercised the authority of a military chieftain in war and of a civil adminstrator in peacetime. Anybody could join the Cossacks, if the Cossacks considered him a worthy warrior (there are parallels in other warrior cultures for example, the Iroquois and some other Indians would accept strangers, even whites, as members of the tribe, if they could prove in quite challenging tests that they were "real men"). There is evidence that Cossacks accepted in their communities Tartars, Germans, Greeks, Turks. There was only one condition believing in Christ. Looking at the last names of Cossacks one can tell the origin of their ancestors. For example: Grekov from Greeks, Gruzinov from Georgians, Millerov from Germans (for example, among Cossacks during the siege of the fortress Azov was a German called Johann. He engineered a tunnel up to the fortress to plant explosives, thereby blowing up the wall allowing the Cossack fighters to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and take the city), Serbinov from Serbs, Turchaninov from Turks,Tatarinov from Tartars, Polyakov from Poles... All these became Cossacks and only the names tell where their ancestors came from to the Don or Dnieper. Although of course the majority of Cossacks were of Slavic origin.

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