The Cossacks by Philip Longworth
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Overview: The legend is romantic and spectacular. Mention the word Cossack and any of a number of vivid images is called to mind—a fur-capped horseman, sabre flashing, galloping across the empty steppe; bacchanalian dancers in gaudy eastern costume swirling and leaping to the strum of balalaikas; dark riders with leaded whips slashing into a crowd of demonstrators on the streets of a Russian city.
The romance of legend usually dissolves away at the first contact with the facts. But the touch of reality is not always so destructive. Sometimes it happens that history, so far from reducing a legend, can actually enhance it, produce a story no less exciting, and rounder, more fascinating than the myth. So it may be with the Cossacks—and through the ages they have accreted an extraordinarily thick layer of myth.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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