Don Cossacks

Don Cossacks

male
Don Cossacks were Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don River, Russia. This population was formed in the second half of the sixteenth...
Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

male, deceased (1657)
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmel'nyts'kyi was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Ukraine. He led the uprising against the...
Stenka Razin

Stenka Razin

male, deceased (1671)
Stepan (Stenka) Timofeyevich Razin was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and Tsar's bureaucracy in South Russia.
Ivan Mazepa

Ivan Mazepa

male, deceased (1709)
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (historically spelled as "Mazeppa"; "circa" 1640-1709), Cossack Hetman (Ataman) of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, in...
Yermak Timofeyevich

Yermak Timofeyevich

male, deceased (1585)
Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia. His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards...
Yemelyan Pugachev

Yemelyan Pugachev

male, deceased (1775)
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, also transliterated Emelian Pugachev, born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne...
Pylyp Orlyk

Pylyp Orlyk

male, deceased (1742)
Pylyp Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, secretary and close associate of Ivan Mazepa. Orlyk was born in Vilejka (now in Belarus) and...

Ataman

male
Ataman (variants: wataman, vataman, otaman, Cyrillic: атаман (Russian), ватаман (Russian, regional), отаман (Ukrainian)) was a title of Cossack an...
Pyotr Krasnov

Pyotr Krasnov

male, deceased (1947)
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov. However, Krasnov was defeated and taken prisoner. The Soviet authorities made him promise that he would not continue...
Ivan Sirko

Ivan Sirko

male, deceased (1680)
Ivan Sirko, Cossack military leader, Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host and author of the famous Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks that...