#cossacks

tacerror:

Kolchak’s cavalry charging a Bolshevik defensive position; from the TV series Admiral (an “extended” version of the 2008 movie spread out across 10 episodes).

The White Guard

Cossacks in Kielce during the Russian offensive in Galicia, October 1914.

Don cossacks fighting for the Red army during the Russian civil war.

Astrakhan Cossack taking aim from his prone horse.

Painted by Nikolai Samokish at the end of the 19th century.

Illustrations of Russian soldiers in 1913.

From the British War Office publication “Handbook of the Russian Army (6th Edition)”.

1916 Russian Cossack cavalry overrun Austrian trench during Brusilov offensive - Ivan Vladimirov

Directed by Patrick Daughters & Marcel Dzama

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (1880-91) - Ilya Repin

trollception:

Hopak dance, unfinished painting by Ilya Repin.

Brandt, Józef: Cossacks fighting Tatars from the Crimean Khanate, painted 1890