Wild EAST: The Cossack World

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Around 1500 the Cossacks gained momentum to become one of the most influential cultural forces for the eastern European world. They called the vast river systems on out edges of the Eurasian steppe their home: a wild region full of dangerous nomadic tribesdangers, a region without laws that really deserves to be called wild east. #cossacks #history
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Chapter:
00:00 Introduction
03:04 Chapter 1: The Origins of the Cossack Hosts
15:20 Manscaped
16:50 Continuation of Chapter 1
20:31 Chapter 2: Revolutions
37:12 Chapter 3: The Raven's Clipped Wings
Bibliography:
Havelock, H, "The Cossacks in the Early Seventeenth Century", in: English Historical Review. 13 (50): 242-260, 1898.
Kappeler, A., Die Kosaken, 2013.
O'Rourke, S., The Cossacks 2007.
Tolstory, L., Cossacks, 1878.
Witzenrath, C., Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598-1725: Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia, 2007.

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    @SandRhomanHistory@SandRhomanHistory2 жыл бұрын
    • Sikh empire please

      @ajithsidhu7183@ajithsidhu71832 жыл бұрын
    • Possibly the of your greatest video as of yet. definitely keep it coming. it really adds a lot to the (sometimes boring) history community on youtube.

      @gabrielvanhauten4169@gabrielvanhauten41692 жыл бұрын
    • Impressive video. You did well with this subject SandRhoman History.

      @brokenbridge6316@brokenbridge63162 жыл бұрын
    • Anyone notice how the political/demographic divide in Ukraine maps almost perfectly onto the old Cossack territory?

      @iraholden3606@iraholden36062 жыл бұрын
    • Great video, but one correction: "Kozak" comes from Slavic (not only East Slavic, but also West one) "koza" - "a goat", because those were people living like goats, in the wild. And Slavic "koza" has the same root as English words "cape" and "cap", and as Sansrkrit word "kaśya" - "a turtle" or "a shell" or "a cover made of leather" [EDIT.] After watching this (and 10 000 other historical videos on YT) as a historian and a Slav I say: *Thank you!*

      @krakendragonslayer1909@krakendragonslayer19092 жыл бұрын
  • interesting that the cossacks were basically the pirates of the east, the cowboys of the east and the revolutionaries of the east all at once.

    @clintmoor422@clintmoor4222 жыл бұрын
    • Epic comment

      @True_black_swordsman@True_black_swordsman2 жыл бұрын
    • Who even needs rules?

      @Helleborre@Helleborre2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Helleborre Cossacks, pirates, mercenaries - around 16 and 17 centuries those groups create their own systems of rules, including electing and removing their leaders (not rulers, mind you).

      @PobortzaPl@PobortzaPl2 жыл бұрын
    • @@PobortzaPl not necessarily "rules" more like... guidelines.

      @kennan6176@kennan61762 жыл бұрын
    • well they were the PEOPLE of the steppes they were everything there

      @mikepette4422@mikepette44222 жыл бұрын
  • the "Wild East" moniker fits perfectly since the Soviets even made their own Wild West movies called "Osterns" or "Red Westerns" which had Cossacks, Turks, and Caucasians (as in from the Caucuses) people playing stereotypes and stock characters the same as America had cowboys, indians, miners/gold rushers, and railroad/cattle tycoons.

    @arthas640@arthas6402 жыл бұрын
    • Any links to youtube uploads of good ones?

      @ThatHabsburgMapGuy@ThatHabsburgMapGuy2 жыл бұрын
    • @@ThatHabsburgMapGuy I haven't seen any full movies myself except for clips. Heres a link to where there are some movies and explanation: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

      @arthas640@arthas6402 жыл бұрын
    • @@arthas640 type in any search engine the best films about the Cossacks, preferably in Russian, and you will learn a lot of films, but very few of them have been translated into English, perhaps some have subtitles. not all Soviet "westerns" about Cossacks, there were also (parody westerns) A man from Kaputsinov Boulevard very popular in Russia.there is a Russian mini-series Ermak about a very famous Cossack who, with a small detachment, conquered the Siberian Khanate, his video author for some reason forgot to mention. there is also a Polish TV series With Fire and Sword.

      @alexswed3136@alexswed31362 жыл бұрын
    • This is what I love about history. Things like this are bound to be neglected by time. Hopefully not with the proliferation of the internet. But imagine how many tidbits like this are lost to history or written out by the victor.

      @SamtheIrishexan@SamtheIrishexan2 жыл бұрын
    • @@SamtheIrishexan what strikes me is the many similarities between early Cossacks and early Americans including common views of freedom and democracy and a shared sense of confidence and adventure.

      @bbadstdad4423@bbadstdad44232 жыл бұрын
  • In polish, the word cosac (kozak) in slang is used to describe someone cool, daring and impressive. Similarly used to the word badass in english. Interesting how the awe of the cosacs freedom and bravery has remained in the culture and language of surounding coutries after so many houndreds of years

    @rozkaz661@rozkaz6612 жыл бұрын
    • nie kozakuj.

      @cetus4449@cetus44492 жыл бұрын
    • You can now see the heritage. Our Cossacks stop russian tanks with bare hands. Glory to Ukraine

      @Dru4Dro@Dru4Dro2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Dru4Dro Yes! and your dramatic and heroic defense of liberty and democracy can be traced directly to your past. Like most Americans, I was blithely unaware. This video adds immensely to my understanding of today's conflict. My heart is yours Ukraine; your fight is legendary! Glory and Strength to Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦 🖕🏻🇷🇺 !!!

      @bbadstdad4423@bbadstdad44232 жыл бұрын
    • @@bbadstdad4423 cossacks were not ukrainians bro. Just as vikings were not Swedish. It's a was a job. cossack as a word means bandit in Turkish language. cossacks were People who ran from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia, who ran away from strong hand of the law -> outlaws. Simply as that, they were of Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Ruthenian origin and lived as mercenaries.

      @lxdead5585@lxdead55852 жыл бұрын
    • @@lxdead5585 indeed, as there was no "ukraine," at least as we think of it today. interesting what the name means depending on regional perspectives. In Poland, "fool," Turkey," bandit," It's my understanding that among the Ukrainian's that DO indeed have ancestral and territorial roots there, a Cossack was someone roughly equivalent to the American Cowboy; part outlaw, but also part adventurer, fiercely independent, democratic, swashbuckling, and brave. There's bound to be at least some truth to that romanticized perspective of a Cossack held by sons of Cossacks, much as there would be some kernel of truth that shaped the perspective, and hence the meaning of "Cossack." by the sons of their age-old neighbors. It's all in the direction you're looking from. finally, to be clear, neither Cossack nor Ukrainian are ethnicities but they ARE cultures, one built upon the other. these are views I hold after the limited "research" I've done on the subject. I'm definitely no expert but I am sticking with my assertion: Cossacks were not Ukrainian but Ukranians were once Cossacks. And from all accounts, they're damn proud of it.

      @bbadstdad4423@bbadstdad44232 жыл бұрын
  • Very nice. It ought to be noted the painting 18:47 took the artist, Ilya Repin, 10 years to paint (1880-1891) during which time Repin studied the Cossacks. It commemorates the Cossacks' writing the insulting letter to Ottoman Sultan. According to some historians, when Europe truly feared the advances of the Ottoman empire, the Cossacks dared to attack the Sultan at his capital, Constantinople. The sheer boldness of the Cossacks made them heroic throughout Europe (this is when multiple copies of the original letter were created) even the Roman Catholic Pope sent Cossacks a diplomatic envoy.

    @barquerojuancarlos7253@barquerojuancarlos72532 жыл бұрын
    • It's Ripyn.

      @user-bt6ci9kg8p@user-bt6ci9kg8p7 ай бұрын
    • Ripyn, not Repin

      @dima_miura@dima_miura7 ай бұрын
    • 1. Ripa/Ripin, not Repin. 2. He himself is from the Cossack family

      @notGomekaKashtan@notGomekaKashtan6 ай бұрын
    • ​@@notGomekaKashtan як

      @mur-meow3318@mur-meow33182 ай бұрын
    • @@mur-meow3318 співпадіння століття

      @notGomekaKashtan@notGomekaKashtan2 ай бұрын
  • That honestly is a fantastic setting for an adventure story. I especially like how deep ships and horses are implemented into it

    @soundofspace8026@soundofspace80262 жыл бұрын
    • Maybe not your cup of tea, but you may check out Mount and Blade: With Fire and Swords. This is a sandbox game based on the novel, "With Fire and Sword", by Henryk Sienkiewicz, sets during the rise of the Cossacks.

      @Rvoid@Rvoid2 жыл бұрын
    • You'd love Henryk Sienkiewicz's "With fire and Sword".

      @spartancolonel@spartancolonel2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Rvoid You better be weaving a lot if you play that one tho. Either that or get used to watching the battle from on your back.

      @unnaturalselection8330@unnaturalselection83302 жыл бұрын
    • Wolf of the steppes by Harold Lamb are a wonderful series of adventure books ;)

      @Darkestestmatter@Darkestestmatter2 жыл бұрын
    • @@unnaturalselection8330 "get used to watching the battle from on your back" Either that, or git gud... ;-) "weaving a lot" Nope. The real life tactic of riding fast at an angle while shooting works better.

      @bakters@bakters2 жыл бұрын
  • Good job covering such a fractured topic in detail. I wouldn't have expected a full documentary video from you, but it's very welcome and appreciated!

    @townazier@townazier2 жыл бұрын
    • One of the best historical descriptions/ to my knowledge / I have read in years.I know that to describe times and actions of people on the edge of stabilized societies, in parts which were ruled for three four centuries by Mongols, Golden Horde, on north bordering with raising Muscovy and other partially independent cities - duchies,on south by Crimean khanate / Ottoman influence still present /, on west by still strong Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth/ in 15 - 16 century real superpower in this area way larger than France today and with no reliable /or. missing / documents is monumental task ,but You did it. If there is some tiny mistake / cca 27.15 min./ Commonwealth from the west , Muscovy from the east ,not opposite as You state.And the name Bodan should be corrected as Bohdan which means given by God.BTW - in Ukrainian name Bohdan should be read with very sound " H ", in Russian as Bogdan / Russian language doesn't have " H ". It is always replaced by "G". So thank You for Your video -it is excellent.

      @meoswald9131@meoswald91312 жыл бұрын
    • Hmmm.... a true definition of our human species indeed.. from rags-to-riches, thieves to laws and orders, from freedom to control, from rises to decline... hmmm.

      @klytouch7515@klytouch75152 жыл бұрын
    • The video is funny because the author talks about what he doesn't understand....

      @nekatsap7@nekatsap72 жыл бұрын
    • yep,thanks for this update. my great great great granddad ( estanislaus Don ), was from a group of Cossacks recruited by Maximillain to fight in the Mexican Revolution against Benito Juarez during the Mexican Revolution. Maximilian lost the war to Mexico and Don settled in Aguas Calientes, never to return to the Russian steppes. We are still a handful of Don's in Texas, thanks to our Ancestor Don.

      @lucianoldon8710@lucianoldon87102 жыл бұрын
  • What an outstanding presentation of history! Thankyou very much for putting it together. My family emigrated from southern Ukraine in the early 1900's and I'm sure they had first hand experiences with these noble individuals.

    @denjhill@denjhill2 жыл бұрын
    • Noble?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

      @NO_NAME_722@NO_NAME_7226 ай бұрын
    • 🤣🤣😂 noble 😅😅😄😁

      @seramikealson7563@seramikealson75632 ай бұрын
    • ​@@NO_NAME_722at their time you had to be noble to have surname

      @UNDEMM@UNDEMMАй бұрын
  • I had no idea the Cossacks had such a vibrate and interesting history. Thank you for showcasing this to the world. Excellent video.

    @blackfalcon1610@blackfalcon16102 жыл бұрын
  • The Cossack letter to the Sultan had me belly laughing and endeared them to me even more.

    @patriciapalmer1377@patriciapalmer13772 жыл бұрын
    • Made me remember the insults hurled at the English knights by the French in Monty Python's Holy Grail. Hilarious. The painting of the Cossacks, sitting around the table laughing and adding their personal tirades made it even better.

      @OutnBacker@OutnBacker2 жыл бұрын
    • Yep, they basically to the Sultan: "F**k you and _Ch***a tu Madre!_ " 🤣🤣🤣

      @Altarahhn@Altarahhn2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Altarahhn The letter is not historical.

      @arda213@arda2132 жыл бұрын
    • It’s was t the original reply

      @donatellodonny3959@donatellodonny39592 жыл бұрын
    • There's something Scottish about this letter :D

      @Miraihi@Miraihi2 жыл бұрын
  • Who needs Caribbean when you got the steppe...Land pirates don’t!

    @Rabarbarzynca@Rabarbarzynca2 жыл бұрын
    • @N Fels Land-captain Raven

      @andriidyiakon5399@andriidyiakon53992 жыл бұрын
    • what a nick :D Rabarbarzyńca

      @krakendragonslayer1909@krakendragonslayer19092 жыл бұрын
    • so wait... Putin still gets to be the butt pirate, right?

      @bbadstdad4423@bbadstdad44232 жыл бұрын
    • Even then they had sea pirates too.

      @marrqi7wini54@marrqi7wini542 жыл бұрын
  • In Poland when we call someone Cossack we think that this person is daring, brave, but in reckless way. Usually it is connected with bothering and provoking someone who you should not bother, cause he is stronger than you.

    @tigertankerer@tigertankerer2 жыл бұрын
    • Indeed, the word _"Kozaczyć"_ in Polish means a type of behavior characterized by a primitive form of aggressive or meaningless showing off....

      @cetus4449@cetus44492 жыл бұрын
    • @@cetus4449 Cossacks is ''free people''

      @vadymbohachevskiy582@vadymbohachevskiy582 Жыл бұрын
    • @@vadymbohachevskiy582 No. The word "Cossack" was first recorded in the Latin-Persian-Kipchak manuscript Codex Cumanicus, written in Kaffa in the late 13th century. It meant a guardian, a sentry. In 1308, "Cossacks" are also mentioned, but as robbers. In many Turkic languages, this word meant mercenaries, soldiers, steppe robbers, and more broadly - exiles, homeless people, bandits. Cossacks were a typical category of loose people in the border zone between the Great Steppe and lands of agricultural cultures. Existing outside the legal sphere, in the wild they escorted caravans one day as retainers, the next day they attacked them as brigands.

      @cetus4449@cetus4449 Жыл бұрын
    • r/madlad

      @toywang7784@toywang778427 күн бұрын
  • Cossacks boats you've mentioned and called them Chaiki is just multiple for Chaika. And Chaika literally means a seagull.

    @insane5375@insane53752 жыл бұрын
    • Also I would like to add to this, Chaikas were used here on Balkans too in mid 1800's , and soldiers riding the chaikas wore the hats that in Serbia became culture symbol and our identity and we named the hat Шajkaчa/Sajkaca ( in our language the boat is called Шajka/Sajka).

      @milankazandzic2283@milankazandzic2283Ай бұрын
  • I'm greatly happy you covered this topic and I think you did a very good job (as an introduction, that is). There, of course, is a lot more that could be said about many things mentioned in this video. For example, if you are interested in learning more about the Tatar raids and the slavery in the region, I recommend a paper; _Slave hunting and slave redemption as a business enterprise: The northern Black Sea region in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries_ by Dariusz Kołodziejczak.

    @Artur_M.@Artur_M.2 жыл бұрын
    • Thank you for that post Artur, I wish to learn more about Tartar/Mongol history and articles like the one you mentioned are just what I needed.

      @KingDanny9@KingDanny92 жыл бұрын
    • I'm planning to start a KZhead channel and my first video will be about exactly that.

      @Dan-sw8tg@Dan-sw8tg2 ай бұрын
  • "We don't actually know when and how women were introduced to the Cossack communities" - no, we do. Women were always part of the Cossack communities because Cossack communities were founded not by "looters, freebooters, and escapees" emulating the nomadic way of life, but by actual sedentary Eastern Slavic peoples colonizing the riverbanks of the Pontic Steppes as early as 1250's. If you go even further back in time you could even notice that there were slavic tribes of the ancient Kievan Rus living partially in the steppes - Tyverians and Ulychi. In the historical sources, you can also find slavic peoples in the steppes performing other kinds of activities - trading in salt along the rivers (Chumaks), or helping nomadic armies cross rivers (Brodnici), or leaving their homes for a couple of months to fish and hunt along the riverbanks (Uchodniki). You may notice that rivers are far more important to Cossacks then the steppes, that's cause Cossacks were not nomads, they lived mostly in small settlements. Their way of life was more nomadic then their slavic cousins up in Kyiv, sure, but to liken them to pastoralist Tatars is a mistake. They mostly lived with Tatars in peace because both groups inhabited different parts of the steppes - Cossacks lived along the rivers to fish and hunt, and Tatars lived out in the grass fields to feed their herds. That's why on many maps, you will find some Cossack Host's administrative divisions (palankas) overlapping rather crudely the Tatar Khanate administrative divisions (ordas). The whole "looters, freebooters, frontiersmen, and escapees" narrative is an imperialist fabrication to justify conquering the lands owned by the Cossacks. Easters Slavic peoples lived there for many centuries before the first Cossack Host was founded, they just were not organized politically. There were, of course, many looters, freebooters, frontiersmen, and escapee serfs among the Cossacks, but even combined these groups were REALLY unlikely to have been the majority of the Cossack population at any given time. If you check the historical sources about who lived in the steppes and what they mostly did, you will notice a far more complex picture with far less banditry. As soon as the Zaporozhian Host was founded, though, we can speak of a semi-militarized decentralized Cossack state run by local soldiers elected from among the military-trained men. This state often clashed with various Tatar Khanates and the Ottomans, and otherwise served as a source of official Cossack mercenaries to whatever employer was willing to pay and share the loot (be they Christian or Muslim).

    @Ushakov_Mykyta@Ushakov_Mykyta2 жыл бұрын
    • Great stuff, bro. Issue with those English language reports is that they miss allot of information because they do not understand the language

      @ivolodar18@ivolodar182 жыл бұрын
    • Never let the facts get in the way of a convenient story.

      @somewhere6@somewhere62 жыл бұрын
    • Не забувай, що навіть в нашій країні, немає настільки чіткого визначення. Ти хоч уявляєш скільки гуано, автори перелопатили? Я взагалі дивуюсь скільки чого хорошого було сказано із сторони. Не чіпляйся за окремі деталі, та подивись головну картину, яку показує це відео: воно розділяє кубаноїдів та запорожців, та в ньому навіть про війну згадали. А ти доїбався до питання про жінок?))

      @Apocraphtica@Apocraphtica2 жыл бұрын
    • Very interesting. Must have been a very beautiful and free way of life there, tho as well full of danger. In the Jewish history Hamlinzki rebellion is remembered as a very cruel one, for it was not just the Catholic they went after, But all non Orthodox Christians

      @canaanite23@canaanite232 жыл бұрын
    • Who's being imperialist by talking about them like that, the poles, the tartars or the russians. They at least all seem to have agree on what they were as do historians today. The Tartars lead away hundreds of thousands into slavery, I doubt the area was able to defend itself prior to the Cossacks from people who sacked cities in Poland, Russia and even sacked Moscow itself. I would gladly be proven wrong if you could cite up to date scholarship countering those points.

      @vorynrosethorn903@vorynrosethorn9032 жыл бұрын
  • This is probably the best documentary on Cossacks! My Grand Mother family were Cossacks! Respect! Thank you!

    @jamesconway4446@jamesconway44462 жыл бұрын
  • wild west lore: “omg gold!” wild east lore: *somebody that i used to know starts playing*

    @sigmacheseman@sigmacheseman Жыл бұрын
    • elaborate

      @comradekenobi6908@comradekenobi6908 Жыл бұрын
    • fr

      @ThrowAway2AM@ThrowAway2AMАй бұрын
    • ​@@comradekenobi6908 meme

      @Barackobama-uq2ly@Barackobama-uq2ly19 күн бұрын
  • I think you somewhat mix up the Don and the Zaporozian cossacks. There also were the so-called Burgher/City cossacks (Horodovi Kozaky) in the PLC. And they were the largest kind of Cossacks. They didn't belong to any host and most often either went to the steppes for the usual stuff or served as a hired muscle for some magnate. The registered cossacks were an alternative to serving in the PLC crown army or serving a magnate. They mostly consisted of the Orthodox Ruthenians and sometimes Jews and maybe Catholics. Just like with the crown army, the number of the registered cossacks was limited. By serving a magnate one could earn fairly big salary, but couldn't hope to get some land after service or pension. Both of these were guaranteed to those serving in the crown army or in the registered cossacks. The majority of people that joined the crown army or the registered Cossacks were the lesser or "medium" nobility. Most of the nobility in PLC were rather humble people, wealth-wise. Owning a house, some little land and maybe having 1-2 servants or none at all. There was also a rather big chunk of really poor szlachta - "holota" that would work as a hired muscle, servants or sometimes would even beg on the streets(szlachta brukowa/the street szchlata). Folks who went to the Zaporozian Host were mostly burghers, free peasants and the nobility. Not only from the PLC, but also to a lesser extent from the Crimean Khanate(after joining, Crimeans would convert to Orthodoxy and take up an Orthodox Christian name). For many, it was a way to quickly get rich, by joining the raiding expeditions against the Crimean Khanate or the High Porte. Zaporozians were among the main allies(and after all the powerful Ruthenian houses became Poles by converting to Catholicism, Zaporozians became the most significant ones) and patrons of the Orthodox church in the PLC. "Cossacking" was generally a Ruthenian thing, not Lithuanian or Polish(although those did occasionally join as well). Hence it was dominated by the Ruthenian culture, language and faith. After the Union of Brest happened, the Zaporozians became pretty extreme and everyone that joined them had to become Orthodox. It's not uncommon for people that were found(or were highly suspected of) practicing another form of Christianity to be executed. Attacks on the Uniate clergy that attempted to convert Orthodox churches into Uniate ones or push Uniate Christianity onto population were also commonplace. The serfs in the Zaporozian Cossack host probably existed, but they were not as common as it's often portrayed. There were even cases of feeling serfs being sent back to their masters by the Zaporozians. At least that's how it was until the 18th century. Before the 18th century, the Zaporozian host was mostly dominated by the lesser Orthodox nobility, free peasants and burghers. The higher strata of the Cossack society (starshyna), its ruling class, consisted mostly of the wealthy nobility and burghers. You'll have a hard time finding a single peasant or serf among the Hetmans, Otamans or officers. I'm not sure if there even exist any documented ones. But the majority of the Zaporozians were "holota" - nobles and commoners that were dirt poor. Officially, females were forbidden on Sich. When the winter came, the Cossacks usually went back to their homes, to cities or khutir. During the 18th century, when the right-bank Ukraine came fully under control of the PLC again, that's when a large number of serfs from there started swarming to the Zaporozian Sich and an image of a poor free serf Cossack became a thing. Yet still, at those times, you won't find known serfs among the Sich's ruling class. It should also be mentioned that the Hetmanate/Ukraine/Vis'ko Zaporozke and the Zaporozian Host are two different things. Kish otaman(also sometimes called a hetman) ruled in the Zaporozian Host, while a hetman ruled the Vis'ko Zaporozke. The Zaporozian Host existed as a sort of autonomy within the Vis'ko Zaporozke, having its own rulers, army and land. After the Hetmanate was established, a large part of the Zaporozian ruling strata went there and the Orthodox szlahlta almost completely merged with starshyna(there were those that preferred to stay as szlachta and retained their titles and rights; somewhere around 1200 families, if I remember right). In Vis'ko Zaporozke, de jure everyone was equal(de facto it was different; just like it was for szlachta in PLC) and the Cossacks generally were supposed to see each other as equals regardless of the background(obviously that's not the case and those of higher birth most likely looked down upon those of lower). The absolute majority of the nobility(szlachta) surrendered their noble rights and sort of became like the commoners(putting their genealogies and coats of arms in dusty storage chests till the day when the Russian Tsar would offer to turn all those Cossacks, and not only the starshyna ones, into nobles again; many even forged the documents proving their nobility, successfully acquiring a title). In the Hetmanate, every Cossack was supposed to be sort of like a szlachcic and considered himself as such. Duels and court cases because someone's "szlachcic honour" was offended were pretty common. The government and the society of the Hetmanate generally mirrored that of the PLC. But the serfdom was abolished and everyone enjoyed freedom. At least for a time. Slowly, but surely, starshyna was reinstalling it. Vis'ko Zaporozke existed until 1782 (eventually turning into Little Russia Governorate) and the Zaporozian Sich until 1775. Also, Czaplinsky didn't bully Khmelnitsky because he was a "Cossack". It was pretty commonplace for the PLC nobles, especially in Ukraine(during the 15-17th centuries), to raid other nobles. Just hire some horodovi kozaky and send them to beat up ass of another noble and take away his property. Magnates, which had private armies (Yarema Vyshnevetsky and Constantine Ostrozky had pretty big ones), often engaged in squabbles between each other which turned into local wars. They also often took away (by force) land from the less strong nobles. Those nobles would sometimes preach about oppression of the common man among the peasants, calling them to rebel, maybe summon some of their cossack buddies, and start a rebellion against a local magnate that wronged them. The clothes were not borrowed from the Tatars. Tatars, just like the Ruthenians, adopted them. And so did the Ottomans and many others. Later on developing their own, somewhat unique styles. I really like the Muscovite fashion and I'd say that it was even more "exotic" than the Ottoman one, which for a time served as a fashion inspiration in the region. The Eastern Europe, the Central Asia and the Middle East generally had many similarities in fashion since the Middle Ages, due to trade and many other things. During the times of the PLC, clothes such as kaftan, kontusz and zhupan, among many others, were worn all over those areas differing only by having a different name and a slightly different design. Fashion of the Ottoman Empire also influenced how the richer folk from the neighboring states(and even Western Europe) around it dressed. The cossacks didn't really wear anything that'd make them stand out in a city crowd. Hungarians, Greeks, Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Muscovites, Balkan people, Turks, Tatars, Kurds and other folks shared many elements of their dress(especially the nobility) because of a shared cultural zone.

    @abanereizei204@abanereizei2042 жыл бұрын
    • That is an excellent comment, one of the best ones I've read in a long time. Props to you!

      @Dexusaz@Dexusaz2 жыл бұрын
    • This is all quite accurate, conflating Cossackdom in the Don and in Ukraine is a mistake, since, for most of their histories they dealt with different issues and had different backgrounds. Within the study of Ukrainian Cossacks, looking solely at the Siches is also a mistake, as well as omitting the role of the nobility. The first known Cossack was a member of the Hlins'kyi noble family, the founder of the Zaporizhian Sich, 'Baida' Vyshnevets'kyi, was one of the largest landowners in Europe, and his family would go on to wear the Polish Crown after his nephews converted to Catholicism.

      @TheZerech@TheZerech Жыл бұрын
    • Very accurate comment. The author of the video really looks at the topic of Cossacks through the prism of Muscovites. Whereas Cossacks as a phenomenon are more characteristic of Rus (Ukraine). I agree with almost everything in your comment, except for the relationship between the Hetmanship and the Lower Zaporizhzhya Army.

      @user-tb7be8rx7q@user-tb7be8rx7q Жыл бұрын
    • Moscovites were tatars, actually, Many of them. And moscovite culture was different fro cossak (Ukrainian or Rus) culture. Otherwise, pretty interesting writing.

      @easygamingwwiigamingchanne729@easygamingwwiigamingchanne7298 ай бұрын
    • Ay yo, great comment! You definitely know a lot about history of that period and region. Cheers, druzhe!

      @Sews@Sews7 ай бұрын
  • As a Western European, I always love learning more about the history of Eastern Europe ( although I love world history in general ) because it is sadly often overlooked in an academic sense when analyzing politics & history alike and fascinated me deeply due to its relatively close proximity to my own homeland.

    @Arcaryon@Arcaryon2 жыл бұрын
    • As a eastern European myself this is interesting history because it is not my part of eastern Europe

      @xboxgamerhr@xboxgamerhr2 жыл бұрын
    • It isnt overlooked, eastern europe was and is pretty insignificant. France alone for example has more importance in history than all slavic countries combined except perhaps for birth of communist states but it lasted only like 70 years.

      @autist4209@autist42092 жыл бұрын
    • @@autist4209 france has a lot of historical significance of course; it's the 2nd most historically significant country France is also bigger than every eastern european country bar one Russia, and russia is extremely significant, it is the most important nation of the last 100 years

      @xboxgamerhr@xboxgamerhr2 жыл бұрын
    • @@autist4209 What an arrogant and dumb statement. French history may be important to the French and Western Europe. Everywhere else their role was marginal. Worldwide the Brits and Spanish had much more significant role than the French.

      @yarpenzirgin1826@yarpenzirgin18262 жыл бұрын
    • @@autist4209 franks were considered illiterate savages of a violent backwater for many centuries while the eastern Roman empire was the centre of the world. Times change. France became the centre of the world. Now it's crumbling but hopefully not forever.

      @Stephen-uz8dm@Stephen-uz8dm2 жыл бұрын
  • I'd love to see a high quality Cossack history show series

    @cliffwoodbury5319@cliffwoodbury5319 Жыл бұрын
    • It cant be done for now, there's too many politically unsettled grounds to produce historically accurate and theatrically quality series. I also hope some day to have such show created!

      @dusan19377@dusan193775 ай бұрын
  • An amazing and beautiful video, greatly learnt from such a fascinating people and culture! The only thing I knew about the cossacks came from the Spanish expression for heavy drinking "to drink like a Cossack", and now I see why :D

    @ignacio1171@ignacio11712 жыл бұрын
  • I know it's an overview video, but the depiction of relations of cossacks in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was quite simplistic. The Khmelnitsky uprising itself would warrant a video itself or the enormous battle of Berestechko, which is considered to be among the biggest battles of 17th century. The rebellion was quite a turning point in history of Eastern Europe. One of the big what ifs of history of the region is if the Treaty of Hadiach actually came to fruition, it was supposed to create the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth in which Ruthenians would gain an autonomy in Kiev and Bratslav voievodships.

    @solinvictus2274@solinvictus22742 жыл бұрын
    • This was basically a historic precontext to a creation of future ukrainian national identity and statehood separate from Poland or Russia.

      @fungunsun1@fungunsun12 жыл бұрын
    • I have just found out that the Hadiach union actually technically functioned, albeit for only about 1,5 years. I honestly thought it was only a project without any sort of physical manifestation. Yet, the Ruthenian Chancellor was appointed, borders were defined and the state was being organized. Of course, it was never finalized and after the death of the chancellor Nemyrych (in a peasant rebellion suspected to be inspired by the Tsardom) and subsequent second Pereyaslav treaty, it all fell apart.

      @tomekdarda@tomekdarda2 жыл бұрын
    • The so called Ukraine is nothing but a tool the West are using to impose the NWO on Russia and destroy the last vestiges of Christianity in Europe. Once Putin is dead, the so called Ukraine will be a German vassal state, the whole region will be flooded with Asian and African immigrants and cease to exist. Russians need to stick together against Western savagery.

      @JohnSmith-le5oe@JohnSmith-le5oe2 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah it’s cool stuff, I hope he goes deeper into it and makes some videos in his usual style covering the uprising and subsequent events

      @thenoblepoptart@thenoblepoptart2 жыл бұрын
    • ​@@JohnSmith-le5oe Boy, just because you don't give us peace of mind and make up a "western" threat doesn't mean it will. Millennia have been turbulent, and when we finally gained independence, now you are crazy as devils))

      @godgivemart2866@godgivemart28662 жыл бұрын
  • 7:00 I find it funny that the Tatars would complain to Muscovy about being raided. I mean, didn't they have a habit of themselves raiding Muscovy? I can't blame Muscovy for not being particularly sympathetic. Lol

    @RadioactiveSherbet@RadioactiveSherbet2 жыл бұрын
    • The relationship between Moscow and tatars were strange. They were bloody enemies and relatives at the same time. And the cossaks were weapon of this relationship. It's known, that at the same time tcar send the letter to a tatar Khan, at the same time he sent guns and gunpowder to cossaks.

      @antonnikonov3264@antonnikonov32642 жыл бұрын
    • @@Tonyx.yt. im sure that's a universal trait lol

      @hoticeparty@hoticeparty2 жыл бұрын
    • Ivan the Terrible descended from vassals of the Golden Horde. In fact, his namesake (Ivan I Moneybags) was reviled as a tax collector for the Tatars. It was only in his grandfather's time that Muscovy earned independence from the Horde. By the time of his rule it had been two generations since the large Tatar raids effectively stopped. The Crimean Khanate of his time was a semi-sedentary state which, yes, occasionally raided Muscovy, but from both states' point of view there was a legitimate reason for that. See, when Ivan III the Great (the Terrible's grandad) threw off the Tatar yoke, he understood fully well that while he could beat the Horde's armies on the field, he couldn't stop the Tatars if they resorted to their typical Mongol-style rampage against exposed Muscovite communities. So a form of "understanding" was reached. Muscovy would no longer pay the Mongol tax, nor provide tribute in slaves, but the Horde (and its descendants) were allowed to pretend they still extracted that tax from Muscovy. In practice the Horde (and its descendants) were tolerated a few raids into Muscovy territory each season but would be attacked if they made themselves a major nuisance. However, obviously the opposite kind of raid was not allowed (nor was Muscovy interested in doing so). So from the context of the Crimean Khan's POV his raids were justified as tax collecting expeditions and from Ivan's POV it was a small price to pay. After all, he had bigger fish to fry (like Novgorod). That's why the appearance of a chaotic third party like the Cossacks was a headache for BOTH major states.

      @andrewsuryali8540@andrewsuryali85402 жыл бұрын
    • The Moscow tsar was a vassal of the Crimean khan until 1700, and paid tribute to him ...

      @nekatsap7@nekatsap72 жыл бұрын
    • Imagine if Mongol Khaans were bit more literate, visionary and tech savvy back than. They could have had guns made in china haha that would be wild, completely have changed the course of history lol

      @kilingpertin6081@kilingpertin60812 жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating look at various people groups that tend to get overlooked by most people and historians alike. Very well presented and thought out. This documentary is informative and doesn't bore you as others would. I enjoy documentaries like this and bravo to the channel creator. You sir have done a marvelous job in these histories. Thank you .

    @derrickguffey4775@derrickguffey47752 ай бұрын
  • Cool graphics dude, and excellent story telling. Thank you for giving us a better understanding of the Cossaks.

    @evolveausevolveaus@evolveausevolveaus3 ай бұрын
  • I have learned so much about Cossacks because of this video. Also, that transition to an advert for Manscaped was very smooth.

    @BEANSNOHELPME@BEANSNOHELPME2 жыл бұрын
  • This is awesome! I've always found the Cossacks fascinating, but living in the U.S it seems they're often treated as something more like a quaint myth (with big hats and weird dances).

    @brianoneil9662@brianoneil96622 жыл бұрын
    • They were russian cowboys

      @tedarcher9120@tedarcher91202 жыл бұрын
    • @@tedarcher9120 Ukrainian *

      @Slouworker@Slouworker2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Slouworker at that time there weren't yet ukrainians, only southern and northern dialects of old-russian

      @tedarcher9120@tedarcher91202 жыл бұрын
    • @@tedarcher9120 More Moscovite propaganda.

      @somewhere6@somewhere62 жыл бұрын
    • @@somewhere6 Nah, the majority of them were orthodox Ruthenians. I think that's the best and most impartial classification.

      @kamilszadkowski8864@kamilszadkowski88642 жыл бұрын
  • Wow, that was amazing. I remember that we talked in school about Cossacks. But that amount of detail is just amazing. This is amazingly interesting. Thank you for all the work you put into the video.

    @stemill1569@stemill15692 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for this, enjoyed watching. Very well made video. Much love and respect to our Cossack brethren from Serbia ^^

    @TheBranchez@TheBranchez2 жыл бұрын
  • Nice and surprisingly long video! As somebody who actually has family ties to Cossacks (Refugees after the Russian Revolution and Members of the famous Cossack Choir) i found it beautifully animated and still informative.

    @borismilojevic9795@borismilojevic97952 жыл бұрын
    • We share a common history! Don Cossacks? Relative George Roth Don Cossack Choir. Olgenfeld and Rhuental cossack host villages near Rostov.

      @petrokrasnov2967@petrokrasnov2967 Жыл бұрын
  • One of the best videos about Cossack history, more people should know their story

    @sergiopadillacerezo20@sergiopadillacerezo202 жыл бұрын
  • This is such a great video thanks for making this, the Cossacks are something i was really interested about so i learned a lot!

    @MegaNikos44@MegaNikos44 Жыл бұрын
  • Though not convinced by your final summing-up, your marshalling of research and your excellent narrative has convinced me of the need to subscribe to you. Terrific video! Thanks!

    @miketackabery7521@miketackabery7521Ай бұрын
  • Thank you for an excellent video, I learned a few things regrading Raisin, for example One point to add: when the Zaporozhska Sech was destroyed, some Cossacks went to Kuban, becoming Cossacks there, and some went to Ottoman Empire over Danube. There were also small Cossacks pockets in modern Kazakhstan (Vernyi now AlmaAty) and Far East (Ussuri Cossacks) IIRC. ----------------------- Fun fact (rumor?) about Khmelnitskiy - he was a Polish military (sotnik), and try to revenge Chaplinsky by law. He came before the Polish king but the king advised him to take the matter into his own hands. "Do you have a sword?Someone, give pan sotnik a sword!" Unfortunately Khemlintsky followed this advice but the result was not what the king would expect.

    @alexandern8671@alexandern86712 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah, it's a fact, not a rumor. Another important thing is that Chaplinsky's attack wasn't something very strange and shocking, because it was quite usual practice for the Polish nobles to attack settlements of their competitors. And there is quite a theory that passivity of Polish king was because he wanted to weaken Polish nobles and their power by the uprising, as king didn't have a lot of power in Poland.

      @danylo1724@danylo17242 жыл бұрын
    • @@danylo1724 Thanks for the confirmation, I was not sure

      @alexandern8671@alexandern86712 жыл бұрын
    • @@danylo1724 Not only that, in 1648 Polish King wanted war with Ottomans, he dreamed about this war almost as crusade to retake Constantinopole, but he cant officially declared war with another state, so he wanted start war with Ottomans by Cossacks raids on Ottomans, sadly this backfire...

      @kosa9662@kosa96622 жыл бұрын
    • @@kosa9662 right, i forgot about that. Some contemporaries also blamed king in the sympathy to the Cossacks for the reasons above. And this quote about sword was not as an insult, but as a hint that Khmelnytsky can use his forces to revenge Chaplinsky. But it went out of control a little bit.

      @danylo1724@danylo17242 жыл бұрын
    • Slightly more than out of control. Nobody anticipated that things will turn against Rzeczypospolita so badly. One my might say that nobels and Vasa kings arrogance became another nail to the coffin in case of Cossacks, just before Deluge, with Moscow rising to power.

      @pliedtka@pliedtka2 жыл бұрын
  • Always been very curious of this history, feel like it doesn't get mentioned enough great work as always

    @shoyupacket5572@shoyupacket55722 жыл бұрын
  • Love the work, narration, animation and details, always on point The final reflexion was a nice touch, even more for the current events

    @Oscarandu@Oscarandu2 жыл бұрын
  • Hey man just here after your most recent siege video and I love those but it's also fun when you make the one off vids about things you find interesting are good too. The passion bleeds through some of these You make me feel like a dilettante with the rigor of your research and enthusiasm lol.

    @Eamonshort1@Eamonshort12 жыл бұрын
  • You are very quickly becoming my favorite history channel, good work my dude I love the topics you keep covering

    @ProfessionalHunt@ProfessionalHunt2 жыл бұрын
  • What an amazing documentary. Every video you upload is a must watch. The easiest and most rewarding subscription I’ve made

    @TheLaughingReaper525@TheLaughingReaper5252 жыл бұрын
  • So delighted i found this channel! Amazing animation and narrative such a brilliant piece of work

    @ainonia1711@ainonia17112 жыл бұрын
  • This was such a great documentary! Thank you so much for putting this together!!! Very academically sound! I hope to make similar content like this myself someday. Congratulations

    @Skimeric@Skimeric2 жыл бұрын
  • Those who want to hear more about raiding Constantinopole/Stambull (aka eastern slav tradition), read about Petro Konashevich Sahaidachnyi, zaporozhian hetman. Dude was fcking legend.

    @user-ti4bm4md5y@user-ti4bm4md5y2 жыл бұрын
    • He raided Moscow once as well :)

      @kopatelonline@kopatelonline2 жыл бұрын
    • @@kopatelonline Free man raiding the nest of slaves.

      @chadgaston8615@chadgaston8615 Жыл бұрын
    • You a holes realize that raiding means killing innocents, right? Raping and pillaging, as the saying goes. Weaker enemies, escaping before a proper fight. Craven behaviour, from lesser people.

      @javilorenzana@javilorenzana Жыл бұрын
    • Btw many russian nobilities were of Ukrainian (back then Zapporishian cossack) or partly of that origin.

      @egertroos1691@egertroos1691 Жыл бұрын
  • You know, pretty much this whole historical overview could make an absolutely golden series of comedy movies.

    @Joe-po9xn@Joe-po9xn2 жыл бұрын
  • The "Eastern frontier theme" gets full development in the conquest of Siberia by Cossack bands leaded by Ermak in 16th century.

    @shigidaropupaypups5236@shigidaropupaypups5236 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for yet another insightful and interesting video that not only talks about the facts as they are but also talks about their implications in the modern world, keep up the good work!

    @BSideWasTaken@BSideWasTaken2 жыл бұрын
  • Really like these more narrative driven documentary style viewers. I have watched your more analytical videos in the past and enjoyed them, but personally this is the kind of content i am going to subscribe for.

    @gabe1ist@gabe1ist2 жыл бұрын
  • Oh yes! Been waiting for this ever since the cliffhanger at the end of your last video!

    @KorKhan89@KorKhan892 жыл бұрын
  • I have very interested in the Cossacks history for sometime. This gives a nice starting point. Thanks

    @jander510@jander5102 жыл бұрын
  • That was a smooth transition into the ad lol I didn't see it coming at all. Love your channel keep up the great work

    @benitomartinez2106@benitomartinez21062 жыл бұрын
  • The timing of this video is unbelievable! Later this year, I'm publishing a book from c.19th Russian literature in which Cossacks (e.g. Black Sea cossacks) play a significant role. Also of interest are the other Caucasian tribes: Ossetians, Circassians, Nogai, Kakhetians, Tatar, Kabardians, Abreks, Chechen, Armenian, and the Shapsugs.

    @threethrushes@threethrushes2 жыл бұрын
    • Cool man!

      @a.N.....@a.N.....2 жыл бұрын
    • Yep! Interesting indeed!

      @olivier-pierredebelmont.3630@olivier-pierredebelmont.36302 жыл бұрын
    • What's the name of the book so I can buy it when it comes out.

      @vorynrosethorn903@vorynrosethorn9032 жыл бұрын
    • Hope your launch goes well!

      @forswornclaw732@forswornclaw7322 жыл бұрын
    • I hope in your book you don't call Govgl with “Taras Bulba” a Russian author?

      @alexypolivany7148@alexypolivany71482 жыл бұрын
  • Wonderful documentary about one of the most fascinating and colorful peoples to grace our world. You've made some great content already, but this I think is your best so far. Thank you!

    @bthorson7979@bthorson79792 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing maps and story-telling. I am obsessed with all Steppe warriors.

    @weilandiv8310@weilandiv83102 жыл бұрын
  • Very interesting information. Glad to have found your channel! Keep up the good work!

    @carlklein3346@carlklein33462 жыл бұрын
  • As a Turk, I both admire Cossacks and Turkic Kazaks(not Kazakhstan people today). I studied it, and I think Kazak word comes from Turkic kaz- ıv/ımak which means to shave hair with a knife or a razor. If you look at historical hair sytles of Mongols, Turks and also Cossacks you can see that they shaved most of their heads and left some parts long and sometimes braided.

    @yaltavar@yaltavar2 жыл бұрын
    • your probably right. having a wild haircut seems to have been the rule! but its true much russian cossacks have turkicorigins and the ethnic hybrid goes back much further than the mongol invasion.. in the 10thcentury europeans already described a slavic-turkic hybrid of seminomadic traders that traded on the rivers as far as the volga bulgars and chuvash territory. they are dipicted as having a mix of slavic and turkic attire. these people were known to ply the rivers and intermix more with the nomads than their slavic cousins.. the fact that alot of russian vocabulary that predates the mongols has turkic origins makes it clear this sort of thing was constantly going on for a very longtime.. that and the hybridization between turkic nomads and indoeuropean seminomadic groups in the eurasian steppe that happed far in the past probably led to a continued exsistance of these seminomadic hybrid cultures

      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367@manchagojohnsonmanchago63672 жыл бұрын
    • They are lying. Kazaks were Turks. There are a lot of evidence. Even Ukrainean historian say this.

      @MrAzira@MrAzira2 жыл бұрын
    • Cossacks is Slavic people

      @TheMadara05@TheMadara052 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheMadara05 it is propaganda

      @MrAzira@MrAzira2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheMadara05 Indeed they are, do not feel like you need to support this fact. They talk nonsense.

      @yaltavar@yaltavar2 жыл бұрын
  • OMG 46 minutes! That's really better than many history documentaries in TV!

    @galahad-history@galahad-history2 жыл бұрын
  • Bit of trivia about Oseledetz(the Cossack forelock)-it was designed as a trap for Tatars. Tatar raiders used capture people, by jumping off of their horses and grabbing their target by their hair and puling them down to the ground. Now imagine the target only has a tiny forelock sticking out? Now imagine it's actually oiled and your hand slips, while you're planting yourself into the ground, face burst, of off galloping horse.

    @luciusnetheril@luciusnetheril8 ай бұрын
    • nonsense. Oseledets has a very ancient origin, originally from the Khazars, Bulgars, Pechenegs, Polovtsians, and other nomads of the Black Sea region, long before the Golden Horde. Prince Svyatoslav, who lived in the tenth century, wore an oseledets, according to the testimony of the Byzantine historian Lev Deacon.

      @zlobnyi_kommentator@zlobnyi_kommentator5 ай бұрын
    • That does not make any sense. If you're on a galloping horse and try to grab someone's hair, you're gonna fall off the horse.

      @precursors@precursors2 ай бұрын
  • Cossack hood is the example of East European mindset. Freedom is more important than anything. And everybody for himself. As long as there are Cossacks alive, there is hope for the free spirit of the East!

    @silafuyang8675@silafuyang86752 жыл бұрын
  • Incredibly entertaining, great job on this one

    @abacusabandon@abacusabandon2 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing and quite in depth, thank you for the awesome work!

    @absurdist9609@absurdist96092 жыл бұрын
  • I recently discovered this channel and already watched 5 videos today. A great channel you have here, don´t mind if i watch it non stop for the next week

    @aitoriri1@aitoriri12 жыл бұрын
  • Great information on the Cossacks. I really enjoy hearing about these great warriors

    @davefletch3063@davefletch3063 Жыл бұрын
  • The Cossack (by Tolstoy) is one of my favourite pieces of literature, there was also a famous Royal Navy destroyer in WW2 called 'HMS Cossack'

    @Swift-mr5zi@Swift-mr5zi2 жыл бұрын
    • Cossacks are only zaporozhski cossacks, free people, everything else (Don, Terek, Ural Cossacks) is a pathetic parody, mercenaries in the service of kings and tsars.

      @nekatsap7@nekatsap72 жыл бұрын
    • Tolstoy's book is about Kuban cossack, it is not the same thing, but word cossack is not coincidence, anyway author of the video did not know that

      @arturhashmi6281@arturhashmi62812 жыл бұрын
    • "I have my orders"

      @shellshockedgerman3947@shellshockedgerman3947 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nekatsap7 i watched Taras Bulba with Yul Brynner sooo much as a kid. Zaphorozhski!

      @yury2749@yury2749 Жыл бұрын
    • @@nekatsap7 lmao salty Ukrainians detected

      @briantarigan7685@briantarigan7685 Жыл бұрын
  • Easily some of your best work yet, and on one of my personal favorite historical topics. It certainly is difficult not to romanticise these intriguing frontiersmen.

    @StephenDeagle@StephenDeagle2 жыл бұрын
  • Very interesting and cool .. I'm a fan of all history so I definitely liked and subscribed 👍

    @Mma-basement-215@Mma-basement-2157 ай бұрын
  • We need more films and series about Cossack, I love their spirits Heroiam Slava

    @vidarodinson5246@vidarodinson524628 күн бұрын
  • I have rarely learned so much from a single video. Bravo!

    @LookToWindward@LookToWindward2 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you! But i should give attention for two moments: 1. Left-Bank Hetmanate was effectively merged into imperial system after liquidation of leftbank regiments in 1781, which used to be not only military instituion, but also administration for particular territory 2. after destruction of Zaporozhian Sich in 1775, a lot of the cossack take ottoman protectorate and went to the Danube, where they created several so-called "Zadunayska Sich". In the 1828 most of them changed sides and return under the hand of russian emperor

    @Alex-no1rb@Alex-no1rb2 жыл бұрын
  • This is my favourite video of yours so far. I have learnt so much!

    @faincorellous8648@faincorellous8648 Жыл бұрын
  • It’s crazy to think that we were doing the same thing over here in the frontier…even down to the beaver fur trade.

    @kemlock@kemlock2 жыл бұрын
  • Wonderful video. A nice overview of Kozak history. Another peoples to learn valuable lessons from.

    @brigandboy1425@brigandboy14252 жыл бұрын
  • As a Serb who has in his own history many examples of such a lifestyle. These men lived in hard times, were shaped by hunger, fear and things us modern people will if God wills never again endure. This is why i always have a soft spot for such rebellious men who in spite of the world forge their own path.

    @VojislavMoranic@VojislavMoranic2 жыл бұрын
    • Here in Slovakia we had Hajduks as "free spirited" people who were mostly pushed into such circumstances by others. They forged their life on military frontier. And now they are heros of our folk stories. I guess that is also true for Serbia? There were uskoks in Croatia as well as many others

      @miso689@miso6892 жыл бұрын
    • @@miso689 Hajduks or Hajduci were in Croatia as well, they were living in mountains and they were confronting Ottoman Empire. Our most popular football club is Hajduk from Split.

      @mateoanicic6079@mateoanicic60792 жыл бұрын
    • Cossack here. That modern channels as always replayed sht like "equal rights" "democracy" among cossacks. In reality all was not like in soyboy modern society =)

      @vladimirthegreen6097@vladimirthegreen60972 жыл бұрын
    • @@vladimirthegreen6097 Even modern Slavs who i as part of them consider us weak and degenerated by western influence. We are levels above anything in the west. A woman must know her place the same as a man. Without both doing their equal part the household falls at the seams.

      @VojislavMoranic@VojislavMoranic2 жыл бұрын
    • @@VojislavMoranic true. Man is lider in family and woman are safe housefire. And one more about cossacks. We are slavic people just look at the our dna. This thing like "everyone can be a cossacks, jew cossacks" and other nonsense is just modern view but suddenly not only from the west but from the Russia too

      @vladimirthegreen6097@vladimirthegreen60972 жыл бұрын
  • All things considered, this is a fair overview of the Cossack history.

    @mr.snezok@mr.snezokАй бұрын
  • Wow. What a find. Thank you for this enlightening documentary. Really well put together and engaging. And enhanced the little Cossack knowledge I had. Which was probably more romantic than real. 😀

    @roguesorcerer1145@roguesorcerer11452 жыл бұрын
  • Some Cossacks migrated to Ottoman Lands in late 18. and 19. centuries. They were on opposition to the rulers of Russia. They came to Northwest Anatolia and they have been permited to establish a village in near of Manyas Lake.(today's Kocagöl Village) The village's old name was "Kazaklar" which means Cossacks. If you look at to 19. centuries etnich maps of Anatolia you can easly find them. My village is very close to their old village. In 1960's all of Cossacks went to another countries. They were earning money by fishing. Even in our village there were a fisher family. My grandfather(1934-2019) had told stories about a fisher man from only cossack family was in our village and the name of the man was "Dimitrie". And they were also migrated abroad. Great video. I hope there will be more videos about Black Sea Region and Ottoman History. Greeting feom Turkey to Ukrainan friends.

    @cloneeja@cloneeja2 жыл бұрын
    • Interesting info! I know Kocagöl (my mother is from Kayaca village) but never knew it was originally a Cossack village. Thanks for sharing! Also the area around lake Manyas are quite interesting tbh. There are some villages who get their names from Oghuz tribes.

      @cankutbuyuketi4065@cankutbuyuketi4065 Жыл бұрын
    • @@cankutbuyuketi4065 Salur öyle de Kızıksa'nın asıl ismi Kızılkilsie'dir.

      @cloneeja@cloneeja Жыл бұрын
    • Yanlış hatırlamıyorsam Çepni köyü de vardı.

      @cankutbuyuketi4065@cankutbuyuketi4065 Жыл бұрын
    • @@cankutbuyuketi4065 çok doğru

      @cloneeja@cloneeja Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@cloneeja interestingly the name Cossack comes from the Kazak, Turkic kaz- ıv/ımak meaning "free peoples"

      @comradekenobi6908@comradekenobi6908 Жыл бұрын
  • The response to the Sultan by the Cossacks has got to be the greatest put down in history and I don't care if some historians suddenly don't think it happened in my book it happened I even have the painting in my living room.

    @loslobos786@loslobos7862 жыл бұрын
    • "I don't if it's fake news, it must be happened in my book" It's not some historians that suddenly don't think it happened. It litterally never exist in any archive. It's just like fanfiction.

      @cool06alt@cool06alt Жыл бұрын
    • @@cool06alt you're in need of an education little one let's educate you (1) The Cossacks never kept written records for 99% of their existence so it's not surprising that their is no record. Why keep written records when 99% of your people can't read. (2) the Sultan who was being insulted HILARIOUSLY by the way had the power of life and death in his kingdom so why would any official bring it up any scribe write it down or keep a record of it, depending on the mood of the sultan having anything to do with a copy of it could mean life or death and the Sultans of Turkey were especially known for their bloodthirsty punishments. (3) these “it didn't happen" stories are a common symptom in historical circles. Ounce we lose primary sources and we lose them every day due to the degradations of time IE earthquakes, war, floods, parchment turning into dust most historians refuse to pin their reputation to anything in the fear of being called a conspiracy theorist. In a thousand years people like you will argue on their form of the internet on weather 911 happened because there is no physical evidence no historical records exist because a sun spot destroyed the old inefficient internet and the only thing remaining of 911 is a two hour episode of a vaguely racist Alex Jones ranting on a thumb drive that some red neck kept in his sun spot protected bunker because he was obsessed with conspiracy theory lol. (4) in conclusion it had to have happened for the simple reason that when the painting was made and primary sources were available freely due to the closeness of the event the availability of witnesses the popularity of the work.. not one NOT ONE person said....Hey that's hilarious TO BAD IT NEVER HAPPENED.

      @loslobos786@loslobos786 Жыл бұрын
  • "The study of history is not the study of the past, but the study of change. So instead of contemplating the loss of a romanticized past, we should use the past as a reservoir to understand change in our own time, and think about what circumstances make our society what it is today". I get chills hearing this, its such an intelligent and concise way to sum up your videos. Great job!

    @dadno_sound4533@dadno_sound45332 жыл бұрын
    • You just don't understand about what talking .

      @user-ms4cm4qf5j@user-ms4cm4qf5j2 жыл бұрын
  • Great video, subbed! I don't know how I've missed out on your channel for so long. Keep it up!

    @froggystyle642@froggystyle642 Жыл бұрын
  • Qazaq, the name that refers to majority nation in modern Kazakhstan, are the cumulative term for nomadic tribes of Mongolian as well as Turkic descent that inhabited vast lands of Eurasian steppe.

    @baursaq1181@baursaq11812 жыл бұрын
  • Great video on a group not often covered!

    @ShroomSnip3r@ShroomSnip3r2 жыл бұрын
  • I love what you said at the end about history really being the study of change and using it to better understand our world today. I like to try use what I can take from learning about the past to enrich my life today in my own way. I feel my life enrichened when I learn old forgotten stories, songs, and crafts. Instead of wishing I was in olden times I bring olden times to me and use what I learn from the past to benefit the new. This was so great thankyou!

    @oldbrokensqueezebox@oldbrokensqueezebox7 ай бұрын
  • I really appreciate the detail and flow of this video.

    @akmalazamov4538@akmalazamov45382 жыл бұрын
  • Great Video about the Wild East! I was just wondering if your town maps are handled through Inkarnate, as I recognize some of your assets.

    @giacomofinali992@giacomofinali9922 жыл бұрын
  • When I was a kid I saw the movie Taras Bulba in the theater. It made a lasting impression on me and was a very favorable portrayal of Cossack society. I later read the book it was based on.

    @yossarianmnichols9641@yossarianmnichols96417 ай бұрын
  • I was never taught this extensive history of the Cossacks but it reassures my pride in the culture, and maybe explains why I am who I am.

    @dedrahernandez7764@dedrahernandez77643 ай бұрын
  • Love the sentiment at the end. History and identity should not be straightjackets, but tools for wisdom and self expression.

    @loklan1@loklan1 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for the Viking digression. A vik, or vík, using Old Norse, is a water inlet. This is where you launched the boats, or carried them over land to the next fjord or sea body. So you can clearly see the "verbification" done by the Old Norse. The -ing being the add-on part that all verbs get, both in modern and old Norwegian. "Seiling" for example, is sailing in English. Fisking is fishing. Some words split many hundred years ago but many retain the similarities, and especially the -ing ending. For example, they could had called going viking "going boating" or "båting" but it would be less descriptive of what their intents - trading and raiding - would be.

    @SebHaarfagre@SebHaarfagre Жыл бұрын
  • This reminds me of Olgierd Von Everec's band of bandits from the Witcher 3. His position was also called the "Ataman" of the group.

    @pedrojuan8050@pedrojuan80502 жыл бұрын
    • Yes, very similar folklore

      @maltrhythm105@maltrhythm1057 ай бұрын
  • I just found your channel today and I can tell you will be a big channel! Also you have awesome merch, very nice designs 👌

    @kaiserb8348@kaiserb8348 Жыл бұрын
  • Original cossack settlements were pretty much what enable them to very versatile particularly venturing into the dangerous steep, they had modern weapons and tactics, guns and are familiar with tartar tactics. And they are literally a military like expedition group consisting only of men, hence they are not bogged down with women and children making them vulnerable to tartar raids and attacks.

    @gon4455@gon44552 жыл бұрын
  • What an astounding video.

    @rotciv1492@rotciv14922 жыл бұрын
  • You should definitely do a similar analysis to the Boers and their history leading up to the Boer Wars.

    @GermanHockey@GermanHockey Жыл бұрын
  • Amazing video and well said outro!

    @shadowofthenight7316@shadowofthenight7316 Жыл бұрын
  • Every time in History that a "noble" class were created, or defended, or propped up,...it led to MASSIVE suffering on BOTH sides of any any of the MANY battles ensuing!. Excellent Video SandRhoman!, very informative and well delivered and illustrated!, thank you!(new Sub by the way.) Some info(maybe Video?) on the Cossack(and formerly Mongol) Battle style(particularly the "Shooting from the Saddle" style tactics that were driven by some stunningly advanced communication with, and fearlessness from the Cossack's Horses,some info on how many Arrows they could fire, their accuracy, the Bow's characteristics( I believe a short(VERY powerful!) recurve, of Horn and different wood types, Similar to the Scythian bow?, but I am by no means certain!) Thank you again!.

    @schiz0phren1c@schiz0phren1c2 жыл бұрын
  • 42:40 Thanks for mentioning this event. From persoanl family history this was a major event. My great grandpa basically had to run away when he was 6 years old after his familly got massacred. Lived most of his childhood as an orphan in train stations and could nbot even remember his family name, so he basically came up with his own. 43:46 very true. Whenever you hear modern day "cossacks", these are all modern groups and are fundamentally larping. There is no continuity between old and modern "cossacks".

    @andreascovano7742@andreascovano77422 жыл бұрын
    • Theres over 140k people who identify as Cossacks, its definitely not just a giant larping group.

      @gustavosanches3454@gustavosanches34542 жыл бұрын
    • @@gustavosanches3454 Yeah, those people are considered clowns by pretty much everyone here in Russia. There is an ample reason for it - they LOVE to wear their fake medals and silly outfits, have an unhealthy obsession with bdsm-style whips and whipping in general as well as being delusional enough to think that they are some paramilitary organisation and not a complete and utter joke for everyone else. But hey, they are vocal supporters of the current regime, so they get the funding.

      @Sharpshooter0890@Sharpshooter08902 жыл бұрын
    • @@gustavosanches3454 And there are from 100 000- 1 million people that identify as furry. What people identify as doesn't matter. I can identify as a moon person. Doesn't make it so. Cossacks as a culture and a way of life aren't back. What you have today is basically dress up and militia's willing to work as overglorified policemen.

      @andreascovano7742@andreascovano77422 жыл бұрын
    • It's an attempted revival and like many doesn't really work very well outside of a context of developed into. On the other hand they have more kids than most Russians, are genuine in their confidence at least and are willing to put their money were their mouth is by fighting in proxy conflicts and backing up the regime in the hope of concessions. It's early day's yet but I'm sure they can carve out a new niche for themselves if given the time to. Given the current problems of Russia, repopulation is probably the effort they would be the most worthwhile in, if they could set up self-replicating functioning communities once again then then those could be transplanted like plant cuttings across large depopulated areas. Their religiosity, higher birth rates, loyalty to the central power and willingness to endure hardship to prove themselves would make them good candidates for such an effort, even better if they are partly self-autonomous like their processors so that success or failure is not reliant on weird bureaucratic nonsense but rather on evolutionary principals. It could also be the failsafe if Putin is unsuccessful in getting the mainstream birthrate back to sustainable levels. The legitimacy of claims is much less important than how they can be used.

      @vorynrosethorn903@vorynrosethorn9032 жыл бұрын
    • @@andreascovano7742 "What people identify as doesn't matter." Ironic consider the history of cossacks....

      @ZunaZurugi@ZunaZurugi2 жыл бұрын
  • Great job with this! I know you couldn't cover everything, but perhaps you could revisit this subject with relation to the Cossacks' role as servants/enforcers of Imperial Russia. Both the highs (Napoleonic War) and the lows (pogroms). To what extent was this a natural evolution of the Cossack elites from earlier times who held back their poorer and younger counterparts, versus a more top-down policy of state control. Not to make Russia out to be the villain TOO much, though: even in the nineteenth century the memory of the Pugachev uprising was still very fresh.

    @slimpickens32@slimpickens322 жыл бұрын
    • It would also be interesting to go into how much Soviet propaganda and whig historiographical hostility (e.g. bias because they moved from a free people to subjects and enforcers of autocracy, counter to ideas around 'natural' progression of history once held by many historians) might have distorted views of the later Cossacks. The view of the role of both Cossack and Baltic German elites in the Russian Empire would also be interesting.

      @vorynrosethorn903@vorynrosethorn9032 жыл бұрын
    • These were not Cossacks in the true decision of a free man, they were modern riot police and had nothing to do with the Zaporozhye Cossacks.

      @denkravtsov6009@denkravtsov60096 ай бұрын
  • I liked the closing statement! Thank you for a great video!

    @Z_1917@Z_19176 ай бұрын
  • Wonderful video! Informative and enjoyable! Thank you!

    @lobstereleven4610@lobstereleven46102 жыл бұрын
  • Only an armed man can be free. I am from Ukraine and I can add something about the Cossacks. The most important thing to understand is that the Cossacks differed from each other in customs and laws. The most canonical Cossacks are Zaporozhian Cossacks. Cossack associations can be compared with knightly orders, one knightly order differs from others in laws and orders. The Cossack fortress was a training camp, barracks, blacksmiths, military warehouses, it had everything to prepare for the war. Women were not allowed into the Cossack fortress. There were bazaars around the fortress, as well as craft shops and taverns. Merchants travel to fortresses knowing that there is a safe place to trade. For example, during the campaign, the Cossacks chose the hetman and he had full unconditional power, his word was law. But after the campaign, the Cossacks held a trial against Hetman and discussed his actions and decisions, and collectively decided by voting what to do with him. Many hetmans were sentenced to death because of their abuses or heavy losses during the war. The most dangerous position was considered by the Hetman, since more than half of them were sentenced to death, many Cossacks refused the position of Hetman, knowing that with unlimited power, responsibility would come later. There were three main types of punishment, exile, severe physical beatings and death. For example, if one Cossack caused the death of another person, the guilty person is tied up, thrown into a pit, and a coffin with the dead is placed on top of him and buried. Also, the Cossacks had freedom of religion, or rather, their area of ​​religion was Orthodoxy, but at the same time there were many Muslims and Jews among the Cossacks. Basically, the Cossacks agreed that God is one, but different peoples give him different names and understand his teachings in different ways. Your faith was free, but here are the customs and orders you had to observe the habit for the Cossacks.

    @vladkudrya9615@vladkudrya96157 ай бұрын
    • Запорожское казаки произошли от тюрьков язычников. На многих гербах восточной Европы много изображений голов казаков где ворон клюёт глаза отрубленной голове. Такой же герб в Молдавии у города Сороки.

      @user-ny2dx7lz3s@user-ny2dx7lz3s4 ай бұрын
    • @@user-ny2dx7lz3s Запорожские Козаки это уже средина истории а не ее начало, это отдельная ветка, ваше заявление абсурдно, это как рассказывать историю рыцарских орденов на примере одного ордена.

      @vladkudrya9615@vladkudrya96154 ай бұрын
    • Ukrainian cossacks!

      @catnap387@catnap3873 ай бұрын
    • @@vladkudrya9615 Какие рыцарские ордена вы шо казаки это большие банды головорезов.

      @user-ny2dx7lz3s@user-ny2dx7lz3s3 ай бұрын
    • Каким боком украинцы к запорожским казакам? В конце 18 века, всех запорожских казаков Екатерина II переселила на Кубань. Украинцы, - это потомки польских холопов. Расскажи лучше, как твои предки для польского шляхтича свиней пасли. В этом они знали толк.

      @user-xr4wu4rp2r@user-xr4wu4rp2r3 ай бұрын
  • As a distant relative of Hetman Doroshenko, I liked the video. P.S: we in Russia call forests in Siberia as Taiga.

    @snesfan8935@snesfan89357 ай бұрын
  • @19:00 - Repin's famous painting of Zaporozhian Cossacks contains three sinister looking spies in the background, representing, Muskovy, Poland, and the Ottomans.

    @RomansBookReport@RomansBookReport2 жыл бұрын
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