Cossacks. Don Cossacks, Ural Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Terek Cossacks. Essays from the history of ancient Cossack life in accessible language

One of the most famous books in Russia before the Cossacks was written by the author of many instructions for the preparation of ordinary and non-commissioned officers by a military writer and teacher Konstantin Abaza. The book was twice printed at the end of the 19th century and was not reprinted in the USSR. Today we represent it to the modern reader. You will find stories about the emergence of the Cossacks on the Don, about the glorious pages of military Cossack campaigns, a description of the life of the Cossacks, the biography of the most vivid representatives of Cossack chieftains, leaders of uprisings, heroes who glorified the Cossacks of the Don, the Urals, the Kuban and the Terek region. The history of Russia is largely determined by the Cossacks. Without this special force on the outskirts of the Moscow kingdom, neither Siberia, nor the Far East, nor the Caucasus, nor the Black Sea region, nor the Caspian lands would be part of Russia. The book uses illustrations of the 2nd edition of 1899 and the drawings of N.S. Samokisha