About the book
On the wide Ukrainian steppe rose a brotherhood like no other: the Cossacks — free men who answered to no lord, lived by their own code, and became the stuff of legend. Warriors and poets, they defended their land on horseback and sang of it by the fire with the kobza in their hands.
Ukrainian Cossacks gathers their legends into one illustrated volume — the heroism, the freedom and the honour that made the Cossack a lasting symbol of Ukraine. A doorway into the country’s history for curious readers and families.
Inside these pages
The world of the Ukrainian Cossack.
The Zaporozhian Sich
The island stronghold beyond the river rapids where the Cossack brotherhood made its home.
The Kobzar
The wandering singer who carried the people’s history in song, kobza in hand.
The Characternyk
The legendary Cossack warrior-sorcerer said to turn aside bullets and read minds.
Honour and Freedom
The Cossack code: loyalty to the brotherhood and a life that bows to no master.
The Steppe and the Horse
The open grassland and the faithful horse that were a Cossack’s whole world.
- Publisher
- Mountain Mill Editorial
- Series
- Ukrainian Heritage
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian