The Persian shah was so taken by the Cossacks’ martial spirit that he requested the Russian tsar to create a similar troop in his own country. For the Russians, it was an unmissable opportunity to ...
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They once formed the elite guard of a succession of Russian tsars and had a reputation as the fiercest soldiers in the imperial armed forces. Now, after decades of repression under communism, the ...
The Moscow-Paris Cossack cavalry march devoted to the 200th anniversary of the 1812 Patriotic War reached the Polish town of Lomza on Saturday evening, having covered 62 kilometers of the route, ...
In a polo game featured by action that frequently brought enthusiastic applause, the Freshman polo team turned back the Cavalry Cossacks with a score of 15 to 9 Saturday in the Commonwealth Armory. G.
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Soviet secret police shot writer Isaac Babel in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison for no particular reason Jan. 27, 1941, at one of those pre-dawn hours when babies are born and old men die. Babel wasn’t old, ...
The Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army, the Kuban Cossack Choir and the Kremlin Riding School will perform at the finish of the mounted march MOSCOW, August 8 (Itar-Tass) — The ...
September 9, 2018: Russia is again having problems with the Cossacks and it has become a real back-to-the future moment. Despite 70 years of efforts by the communists to destroy the Cossack community, ...