Tuesday 9 September 2014
Panting above: The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Sultan of Turkey (1893 version). In 1880, Ilya Yefimovich Repin traveled to Zaporozhye in Ukraine to gather material for the 1891 Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The self-governing Cossack communities were concentrated in three...