Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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... Cossack blood . With the years the Zaporozhye turbulence had died down . All that was left of it by the time of my childhood was the persistent poaching , the endless lawsuits against Countess Branitskaya over ownership of land - and ...
... Cossack blood . With the years the Zaporozhye turbulence had died down . All that was left of it by the time of my childhood was the persistent poaching , the endless lawsuits against Countess Branitskaya over ownership of land - and ...
Page 52
... Cossacks who harassed them , and took up a position on the far side of the Demyevsky Gate . From there the rebel battery opened fire on the Governor's Palace and on the barracks of the Cossacks . But so inaccurate was their aim that ...
... Cossacks who harassed them , and took up a position on the far side of the Demyevsky Gate . From there the rebel battery opened fire on the Governor's Palace and on the barracks of the Cossacks . But so inaccurate was their aim that ...
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... Cossacks . 7 Zaporozhye : The Dnieper region where the main part of the Cossack army was settled between the 15th and the 18th century . ' Bloodletting of Uman ' : massacre of Jews and Poles by Ukrainian Cossacks in 1768 . 9 The ...
... Cossacks . 7 Zaporozhye : The Dnieper region where the main part of the Cossack army was settled between the 15th and the 18th century . ' Bloodletting of Uman ' : massacre of Jews and Poles by Ukrainian Cossacks in 1768 . 9 The ...
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