Nicholas I improved it greatly ... even sported bows and wore chainmails. The Cossacks of the Escort were ‘gala’ guards of the Emperor, picturesquely following him in all their glory during ...

My grandfather was close to Czar Nicholas, and my father was just a ... candid photographs he took when he commanded the Cossacks who guarded the imperial family. Maria, or “Masha,” took ...

The Cossacks play an increasingly important role in Russia ... As I prepared to leave, Ataman Viktor told me he would like to see the Tsar return to Russia. When I asked him if he could suggest any ...

They mercilessly stamped out all revolutionary threats, their armies drowning in blood the Revolutions of 1848 in eastern Europe, and their Cossacks ... In this way Tsar Nicholas II inherited ...

Like Putin, Czar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia ... Instead, a hastily assembled troop of mounted Cossacks joined the police and the imperial guard to stop the march far short of the ...

As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, “The Admiral of the Fleet” to Tsar Nicholas the Last.

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Kopishynskyi bristles. "The Russian Cossacks were nothing but servants, and all they ever did was submit to the czar. The Zaporizhzhian Cossacks never submitted to anybody." Except this one time ...