The history of the Cossacks

This extensive historical work was written by Andrei Andreevy-shu Gordeev, a hereditary Don Cossack, a Frontovik officer who served in the Don White Housing Army. Even during the life of the author, the book became a noticeable phenomenon in the publications of white emigration. In the “History of the Cossacks”, the military annals of Russia and the chronicle of the military cases of the Russian Cossacks were surprisingly connected. The author talks not only about the most important battles, but also of small battles that brought glory to Russian weapons. Readers will get acquainted with the historical fate of all the Cossack troops of the Russian power: Donskoy and Ural, Kuban and Tersky, Orenburg and Astrakhan, Siberian and Semirechensky, Transbaikal and Yenisei, Amur and Ussuri