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Cossacks: Their History and Country

Name: Cossacks: Their History and Country
Author: William Penn Cresson

William Penn Cresson

Read by Kerry Adams, Owlivia, Wolfgang Bas, Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025), Piotr Nater and thorolfhammer · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Foreword (10:45)
Chapter I. The Origin of the "Free People" (29:59)
Chapter II. The Zaporogian Cossacks (40:34)
Chapter III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia (37:06)
Chapter IV. Bogdan Hmelnicky: A Cossack National Hero (42:59)
Chapter V. The Struggle for the Ukraine (14:52)
Chapter VI. Mazeppa (36:30)
Chapter VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia (23:56)
Chapter VIII. Pougatchev (37:49)
Chapter IX. The Hetman Platov (43:04)
Chapter X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization and Government (21:59)
Chapter XI. The Cossacks of To-day: The Don (21:57)
Chapter XII. The Frontiers of Europe (31:48)