The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine - Serhii Plokhy - Google Books

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The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious…