Anthropology of the Ukrainian Cossacks’ Military Potential (XVIIth–XVIIIth Centuries)
Journal: Folk art and ethnology
Year: 2021

The publication deals with the widespread use by the Russian Empire of the Ukrainian people’s armed forces in its wars of conquest after the 1654 Pereyaslav Council. In particular, given are the facts of the Ukrainian Cossacks’ decisive participation in the assaults of Azov in 1696 and Izmail in 1790. How individual regiments of Cossack troops were involved in this process is reported on the example of combat of each Cossack of the Chernihiv Regiment’s Sosnytsia Company.