The Cossacks: Their History and Country
One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack struggles for political autonomy. Originally published in 1919.
From the Foreword: "It is the proudest boast of the Cossacks of today -- as of their forbears of the Ukraine -- that they have never been classed as serfs nor for a moment lost their freeman's instinct for the principles of liberty. While the peasants of North Russia were bowed in shameful submission to the Great Princes of Moscow and later to the 'dark forces' of the Tsar's court and the Baltic-German officialdom of the capital on the Neva, the history of the Cossack inhabitants of the southern steppes was (as we shall later see) a long epic of heroic resistance to the encroachments of autocracy."
- Summary by Kazbek
Genre(s): Early Modern, Modern (19th C), Modern (20th C)
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Foreword | Kerry Adams |
00:10:45 |
| Play 01 | Chapter I. The Origin of the "Free People" | Owlivia |
00:29:59 |
| Play 02 | Chapter II. The Zaporogian Cossacks | Wolfgang Bas |
00:40:34 |
| Play 03 | Chapter III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia | roselbex |
00:37:06 |
| Play 04 | Chapter IV. Bogdan Hmelnicky: A Cossack National Hero | Piotr Nater |
00:42:59 |
| Play 05 | Chapter V. The Struggle for the Ukraine | thorolfhammer |
00:14:52 |
| Play 06 | Chapter VI. Mazeppa | thorolfhammer |
00:36:30 |
| Play 07 | Chapter VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia | thorolfhammer |
00:23:56 |
| Play 08 | Chapter VIII. Pougatchev | thorolfhammer |
00:37:49 |
| Play 09 | Chapter IX. The Hetman Platov | roselbex |
00:43:04 |
| Play 10 | Chapter X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization and Government | roselbex |
00:21:59 |
| Play 11 | Chapter XI. The Cossacks of To-day: The Don | roselbex |
00:21:57 |
| Play 12 | Chapter XII. The Frontiers of Europe | roselbex |
00:31:48 |