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Minsky became ill and Nicolai Gedda did not want to sing every day, Otto Hofner called it quits. In 1991 Wanja Hlibka (Ваня Хлибка), a soloist since 1967, started the choir again with George Tymchenko, another former soloist of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. In 2001 Otto Hofner transferred all the rights in the name Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) to Wanja Hlibka. The choir continues to give performances. The Don Cossack Choir was renowned for the quality of the tenors and
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off singing. Having left their stanitsa, they drank a cup of vodka and said good-bye to their native land. The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff was a group of former officers of the Russian Imperial Army who were discovered singing in Çilingir (near Constantinople), where they had fled after the defeat of their army in the Crimea. They made their formal concert debut in Vienna in 1923, led by their founder, conductor and composer, Serge Jaroff. The choir became popular in America, Japan and Europe,
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Serge Jaroff


Serge Alexis Jaroff () ( – 5 October 1985) was the founder, conductor and composer of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. Jaroff was born in Makaryev, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire. He trained at the Moscow Synod School for Choral Singing. He served as a Don Cossack lieutenant in the Russian Civil War. In 1920, the Don Army were driven into the Crimea by the Red Army. From there they evacuated to a Turkish internment camp near Constantinople, (now Istanbul). In January 1921, Jaroff
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The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him. After suffering total defeat at the hands of the Red Army, many Cossacks ended up in the diaspora. In 1921 it was with these very Russian refugees that Serge Jaroff set about forming a choir in the Turkish internment camp Çilingir, near Istanbul. The Cossacks began to accompany their own church services, and later left for the Greek island
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Monument to the founders of Rostov-on-Don


Monument to the founders of Rostov-on-Don () is a bronze monument of founders of Rostov-on-Don on Bolshaya Sadovaya street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Sculptor Sergei Oleshnya and architect V. Fomenko created design of the sculptures of five Rostov-on-Don founders: Alexander Rigelman (construction manager), Ivan Somov (the first commandant), Vasily Hastatov (customs manager), Danila Yefremov (commander of the Don Cossack Host) and a cossack. The opening ceremony of the monument
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Michael Minsky


made its concert and television debuts. This success brought Minsky an invitation to become conductor of the Ural Cossacks amateur choir in The Hague, and eventuated in him conducting from 1984 until 1988, the professional Ural Cossack Choir in Germany. Afterwards, in the autumn 1984, he took up and led an amateur Cossack Choir in Rijswijk. Of these two undertakings, in his autobiography he would later write with a sense of dissatisfaction. When Otto Hofner (Jaroff's friend and manager) asked him to renew conducting the Original Don Cossack
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1981. Hofner left when Jaroff finally agreed to a tour under the direction of George Markitisch. In 1985, Otto Hofner sought contact with Michael Minsky. Conforming to Jaroff's wishes, Hofner wished to organize a tour with Nicolai Gedda as soloist and Michael Minsky as conductor. Michael Minsky had been, since 1948 in contact with Jaroff and his choir and since 1964 soloist in the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. This would take place in 1986, as a memorial to Serge Jaroff. The tour was a success, but when
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Ivan Ozhogin


2007 he became a lead singer of the choir at the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery in Dzerzhinsky near Moscow. He also toured Russia and Europe with the Bolshoi Don Cossacks Choir. Ivan regularly sings Russian folk and love songs at classical music events and works with Russia’s leading orchestras. He is one of the initiators and founders of the open-air events of classical music named "The Ecology of the Sound" ("Экология звука") that take place in the Kaluga region. In 2011 Ivan Ozhogin managed a breakthrough as
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of Lemnos. To improve the situation, they started giving open-air concerts, which were especially popular with the British. The Cossack lieutenant, Serge Jaroff worked hard on his choir's repertoire, until a splendid opportunity presented itself. Troops were to be shipped from Çilingir to the Bulgarian town of Burgas and on their behalf the Russian envoy suggested that Jaroff and his choir should be attached to the church. Although the parish was too poor to support a choir, the offer was accepted and the members of the choir were
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Kuban Cossack Choir


Kuban Cossack Chorus (, ) is one of the leading Folkloric ensembles in Russia. Its repertoire and performances reflect the songs, dances and folklore of the Kuban Cossacks. The modern Kuban Cossack Chorus sets the date of its creation as 14 October 1811, when its predecessor, the Black Sea Host Singing Chorus (Черноморский Войсковый певческий хор), was formed. The founders of this choir were Kiril Rossinsky and regent Grigory Grechinsky. Over the next hundred years in addition to singing the Russian Orthodox Liturgy in Slavonic, the choir regularly
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Saratov. He was soon taken prisoner, spending a total of 33 months in various POW camps near the front lines. In 1943, he was put to work as a forced labourer near the Hungarian border. His overseer turned out to be the brother-in-law of a tenor from the Platoff Don Cossack Choir, who told Minsky about the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. After the war, from 1945 to 1948, Minsky moved between a number of refugee camps. Cultural life blossomed spectacularly in these camps, and
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1968 in "Datscha", also in Hamburg. Around this time, he received a contract to sing in New Orleans with "Pagliacci". In early 1963 he performed in La Scala in Philadelphia. He gave also concerts in Friends Academy in New York with Ludmilla Azova. From 1 September 1963 to 31 August 1964, Minsky collaborated with the Gelsenkirchen Opera. Although under contract with the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff and its conductor from 1948 onwards, it was only late in 1964 that he could join the Don Cossack Choir
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Serge Jaroff


put together a choir from Russian refugees in the internment camp. Most of the singers who later performed in the Don Cossacks Choir had been members of the Don divisions since the war in 1914. The 3rd Don division in March 1921 was interned on the Greek island of Lemnos. Then the troops, including the singers, were shipped to Burgas, Bulgaria. The Russian representative asked Jaroff and his choir to join the church. On 23 June 1923, they performed in the cathedral of Sofia and made their formal concert debut in
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had a wind band, they also considered having a choir. Unfortunately, lack of funds marooned the choir in Vienna. Help came from a representative of the League of Nations, who took an interest in the choir. He brought the singers in contact with the director of a concert agency. At an audition in the director's office the singers exceeded all expectations-and a historic decision was made. But the offer of a concert in the Vienna Hofburg on 4 July 1923 put everything else in the shadows. After this
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in the United States and Sol Hurok became manager of the choir. After the War, in 1953, Konzertdirektion Kurt Collien from Hamburg took over the choir from Clara Ebner, and in 1960 the choir was taken over by Otto Hofner from Cologne. Hofner and Jaroff would eventually become good friends and 20 March 1981 Jaroff transferred all the rights of his choir to Hofner. Otto Hofner also directed three feature films and six TV-movies. The last tour under Serge Jaroff was in 1979, although he continued as choir leader until
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amazingly successful concert in the Austrian capital, the director predicted that the choir would not sing once, but a thousand times. In fact, it would eventually perform in excess of 10,000 concerts. The choir toured Australia in 1926, leaving behind its lead tenor, Savva Kamaralli (Савва Камаралли), who decided to make his home there. They traveled to the United States for the first time in 1930 and attained U.S. citizenship in a mass ceremony in 1936. With World War II looming, the choir found a new home
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Mikhail Zlatopolsky


choirs outbid each other for Zlatopolsky as the star player. Zlatopolsky's place was employed by the Union Radio Choir, but he also performed with a number of Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches, and at times a synagogue. Zlatopolsky began singing with Yurlov's choir, and later participated in Valery Polyansky's recording of Grechaninov's "Seven Days of Passion" with the State Symphony Capella of Russia. Zlatopolsky recorded with the Don Cossacks of Russia Moscow Festival Ensamble under Marcel Verhoeff. He also can be heard singing Sviridov's "
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the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. For years, the Cossacks waged war against the Ottomans and the Crimean Khanate. In 1637 the Don Cossacks, joined by the Zaporozhian Cossacks, captured the strategic Ottoman fortress of Azov, which guarded the Don. The defense of the Azov Fortress in 1641 was one of the key actions in Don Cossack history. After total taking of the Free Territories of Don Cossacks under the Moscovits control, Don Cossack history is totally intertwined with the history of the rest of Russia. In exchange for
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protection of the Southern borders of medieval Russia, the Don Cossacks were given the privilege of not paying taxes and the tsar's authority in Cossack lands was not as absolute as in other parts of Russia. During this period, three of Russia's most notorious rebels, Stenka Razin, Kondraty Bulavin and Emelian Pugachev, were Don Cossacks. After 1786, the territory of the Don Cossacks was officially called Don Voisko Lands, and was renamed Don Voisko Province ("Oblast’ Voyska Donskogo") in 1870 (presently part of
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List of Don Cossacks noble families


Noble families of Don Cossacks in alphabetical order includes the old original Cossack noble families from Free Don, families which titles were granted by the Tsars of Moskovia and Russian Imperators after including of the territories of Free Don in to Russian Imperium. Most of the origin Don Cossacks families were a landowners that provoked Russian peasants to escape to Don and work on their lands, like General Atamans of the Efremov family. Free territories of Don Cossacks known from the beginning of 14th century until the end of the 16th century when Moscow gained control
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commanded all the Cossack troops and successfully covered the retreat of the Russian Army to Moscow. The Don Cossacks distinguished themselves in subsequent campaigns, and took part in the capture of Paris. Napoleon is credited with declaring, "Cossacks are the finest light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them." In the general census of 1884, the male population of the Don Cossacks was reported to number 425,000. The Don Cossacks were the largest of the
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the Rostov, Volgograd, and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation as well as part of the Luhansk region of Ukraine). In 1805 the Don Cossack capital was shifted from Cherkassk to Novocherkassk (New Cherkassk). Don Cossacks are credited with playing a significant part in repelling Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. Under the command of Count Matvey Ivanovich Platov, the Don Cossacks fought in a number of battles against the Grande Armée. In the Battle of Borodino, Don Cossacks made raids to the rear of the French Army. Platov
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baritones and for the depth and resonance of the low basses. Every member of this choir was and is trained in a classical or operatic way. The singers can reach sheer power without using amplification. Also the voices have different timbres for different volumes. in the piano range the singers hum in the mezzo piano to mezzo forte the singers switch from a light singing voice to a more deeper sounding voice but with brilliancy. When singing forte a pure operatic bass baritone and tenor voice is achieved with extreme loudness and brightness in the
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1812 Overture


released a recording in 1963, later remastered in quadrophony by Decca. The Black Dyke Band has recorded a brass band arrangement of the piece. This recording on their album "Symphonic Brass" includes the cannon shots as originally written. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan, and the Don Cossacks Choir recorded the piece in 1967 for Deutsche Grammophon. In 1971, CBS released a recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, also featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Valley Forge Military Academy band and real artillery
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the Don Cossacks assembly in Novocherkassk, Don Republic, on 4 May 1918 under chiefing of Ataman Pyotr Krasnov. The flag has three colours: blue, yellow, and red. The flag is similar to that of the Ukrainian State, also established in 1918, which the Don Republic bordered to its west. The Don Cossacks Coat of Arms was known from the 17th century. It was adopted as a symbol of the Don Republic on 15 September 1918. Until 1914 the distinguishing colour of the Don Cossack Host was red:
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Moscow. During World War II, the Don Cossacks mustered the largest single concentration of Cossacks within the German Army, the XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. A great part of the Cossacks were former Russian citizens who elected to fight not so much for Germany as against the Soviet Union. The XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps included the 1st Cossack Division and the 2nd Cossack Division. Today the Russian state is very different. Between 1917 and 1941, more than half of the Don Cossacks population were killed or deported. The heirs of
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Alexander Koshetz


whether musical traditions of the Dnieper Cossacks are still present in their descendants, the Kuban Cossacks, who resettled there following the dissolution of the Zaporozhian Sich. In the latter case he too managed to collect a number of songs. After World War I, Koshetz was the co-founder and conductor of the Ukrainian Republic Capella (later renamed Ukrainian National Chorus). The choir toured Europe and the Americas in 1919–1924 and 1926–27, in support of the international Ukrainian community. In 1917 Koshetz married a former student and singer in his
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register. A number of Cossack communities have been reconstituted to further the Cossack cultural traditions, including those of the Don Cossack Host. Don Cossacks have had a rich military tradition, playing an important part in the historical development of the Russian Empire and participating in most of its major wars. The name Cossack (казак, козак) was widely used to describe "free people" as opposed to others with different standing in a feudal society (i.e., peasants, nobles, clergy, etc.). The word 'cossack
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Don Cossacks () or Donians (, "dontsy"), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they have been located within what was the Don Cossack Host (, "Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye"), which was either an independent or an autonomous democratic republic in the present-day Southern Russia and the Donbass region of Ukraine, from the end of the 16th century until 1918. As of 1992, by the presidential decree of the Russian Federation, Cossacks can be enrolled on a special
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of the 16th century until the early 20th century. In the year of 948 Byzantine Emperor Constantine mentioned of trade of goods, between the Don Cossacks in their home capital. Don Cossacks had a rich military tradition, playing an important part in the historical development of the Russian Empire and successfully participating in all of its major wars. The exact origins of Don Cossacks are unknown. In modern view, Don Cossacks are descendants of both Slavic people and Khazars, which assimilated Goths, Alans, and possibly of Rugii, Roxolans,
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1926:84). This objective, however, failed to prevent many Red Army Kalmyk horsemen from defecting to the White side. The majority of the Don Kalmyks also sided with the White Movement to preserve their Cossack lifestyle and proud traditions. As Don Cossacks, the Don Kalmyks first fought under White army General Anton Denikin and then under his successor, General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. Because the Don Cossack Host to which they belonged was the main center of the White Movement and of Cossack resistance, the battles were fought on Cossack lands and
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a number of these regiments had been issued with traditional Cossack uniforms in ceremonial and field service versions. The dress of the Don Cossack units included the broad red stripes on dark-blue breeches, which had been their distinguishing feature prior to the Revolution. The Don Cossack Cavalry Corps saw extensive active service until 1943, after which its role diminished (as did that of the other remaining horse-mounted units in the Red Army). However Don Cossack cavalry was still in existence in 1945 and participated in the Victory Parade in
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was very disastrous for the Don Cossacks as villages and entire regions changed hands repeatedly in a fratricidal conflict in which both sides committed terrible atrocities. The Don Cossacks, including the Don Kalmyks, experienced heavy military and civilian losses, either from the fighting itself or from starvation and disease induced by the war. Some argue that the Bolsheviks were guilty of the mass extermination of the Don Cossack people, killing an estimated 70 percent (or 700,000 persons) of the Don Cossack population (Heller and Nekrich, 1988:87). By October
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Petr Gavrilovich Kravtzov (January 21, 1861 – January 21, 1919) was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army and Major General of the Don Army. During the First World War he was a commander of the Sixteenth Special Don Cossack Regiment, and after his promotion to Major General from April 1917 to January 1918 Commander of the 3rd Don Cossack Division. Petr Kravtzov was born into a Don Cossacks family of Kravtzov on January 21, 1861 in Rogozina Balka Estate. His father was a Don Cossacks khorunzhyi, Gavriil Pavlovich Kravtzov
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ten cossack hosts then in existence, providing over a third of total cossack manpower available for military service. On the eve of World War I, the Don Cossack Host comprised 17 regular regiments plus 6 detached sotnias (squadrons). In addition two regiments of the Imperial Guard were recruited from the Don territory. By 1916 the Don Host had expanded to 58 line regiments and 100 detached sotnias. The central location of the Don territories meant that these units were employed extensively on both the German and Austro-Hungarian fronts, though
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Monument to the Don Cossacks


statue of the Don Cossack, which stands on poured barrow. The Cossack is dressed in a military great-coat and peaked cap. The sculpture composition was adjusted on a low pedestal. The memorial stone is located at the bottom of this barrow with inscribed phrase: «To the Don Cossacks» (). Сommoners like to call the monument to Grigiry Melechov, who is main character in the epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don. A project of the monument was designed in 1956 in preparation for an exhibition devoted to
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Don Cossack Region electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)


The Don Cossack Region electoral district () was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Don Host Oblast. Originally assigned 17 seats, by decree of the Provisional Government the number of deputies of the Don Cossack Region district was increased to 19. The Provisional Government had provided a degree of autonomy to the Don region, recognizing the authority of the Cossacks over the land. In June 1917 General Alexey Kaledin was elected as ataman. The Kadets had sought to form a joint Kadet-
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influenced by the general disillusionment with the Tsar's government. Accordingly, they did not act effectively when ordered to disperse the growing demonstrations in the city. Reports that the historically loyal Don Cossacks could no longer be relied on were a significant factor in the sudden collapse of the Tsarist regime. The Don Cossack Host was disbanded on Russian soil in 1918, after the Russian Revolution, but the Don Cossacks in the White Army and those who emigrated abroad, continued to preserve the traditions, musical and otherwise, of their host.
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on a different place than present-day Boguchar, in particular, on the left bank of the Don River. This area was inhabited by Don Cossacks in the 17th century, but was devastated during the suppression of the Bulavin Rebellion (1707–08), in which the upper Don Cossacks were active participants. Afterwards, the area has never been a part of the Don Cossack Host, but rather of Sloboda Ukraine and later Voronezh Governorate, since it was settled by the cossacks of Ukrainian ethnicity in the years 1716–17. The town
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Monument to the Don Cossacks


The Monument to the Don Cossacks () is a monument near khutor of Kruzhilinskiy, Rostov oblast, Russia. The monument is located on the R271 highway that runs from Millerovo to Vyoshenskaya. It was designed by sculptors N. Mozhaev, E. Mozhaeva, N. Shcherbakov. The monument was opened in May 1994. It portrays a Don Cossack. The statue is 6 meters tall, not including its 8-metre barrow. In 2015, the Monument to the Don Cossacks was designated a local Heritage Site. The monument is an 8-ton bronze equestrian
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Stakhanov, Ukraine


2014, the city, which had been occupied by Lugansk People's Republic-affiliated Don Cossacks, seceded from the LPR on 14 September. It was said Don Cossacks there proclaimed the Republic of Stakhanov, and that a "Cossack government" now ruled in Stakhanov. However the following day this was claimed to be a fabrication, and an unnamed Don Cossack leader stated the September 14 meeting had, in fact, resulted in 12,000 Cossacks volunteering to join the LPR forces. In October 2015, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to
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Monument to the founders of Rostov-on-Don


to the platform. Ataman Yefremov sits on a trophy cannon, the cossack keeps the flag flying. Other sculptures bower over raised plan of the fortress. Some of the locals criticized the composition for this scene has nothing to do with Rostov-on-Don. The project of the fortress was not discussed. The fortress was designed in Saint-Petersburg by engineer Vendeev and adjusted several times, maybe with the participation of A. Rigelman. Rigelman arrived on the Almighty Don Host as a construction engineer, who was required to put
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Russian gunboat Korietz


Manchuria man", Donets - "Don Cossack" (literally "Cossack from Don"), Kubanets - "Kuban Cossack" ("Kuban man"), Terets - "Terek Cossack" ("Terek man"), Uralets - "Ural Cossack" ("Ural man"), Chernomorets - "Black Sea Cossack" ("Black Sea man") and Zaporozhets - "Zaporozhian Cossack". "Korietz" was laid down in Stockholm, Sweden at the Bergsund Mekaniksa shipyards in December 1885, launched
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List of Don Army Units in the Civil War


Don Republic provided the following units to the Don Army and Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War. After the revolution and the collapse of the front most Don officers and Cossack's returned to their lands of the Don. Most of the Cossacks were outspoken opponents of the Bolsheviks. At the first opportunity, they formed a partisan detachment. In its first stages, the Don Army was under the leadership of the Don Ataman Full General Alexey Kaledin who led the Don Cossack "Whites" before he died on January 29, 1918
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Anthem of the Don Cossacks


Vskolykhnulsya, Vzvolnovalsya Pravoslavnyy Tikhiy Don () is a Russian patriotic song. It was the anthem of the Don Republic (and currently the anthem of the Rostov Oblast, a federal subject of Russia. It was adopted in 1996. It was originally written by F. I. Anisimov in 1853 during the beginning of the Crimean War. It is the symbol of the Don Cossacks, in which the anthem is also referred to as the Anthem of the Don Cossacks (). These are the lyrics for the anthem of the Rostov Oblast
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Don Host Oblast


The Province (Oblast) of the Don Cossack Host (, , "Oblast’ Voyska Donskogo") of Imperial Russia was the official name of the territory of Don Cossacks, coinciding approximately with the present Rostov Oblast of Russia. Its site of administration was Cherkassk, relocated later to Novocherkassk. The province comprised the areas where the Don Cossack Host settled in the Russian Empire. From 1786 the territory was officially named the Lands of the Host of the Don (), renamed Don Host Province in 1870. During 1913,
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1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment


The 1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer of Don Cossack cavalry regiment that served in the Don Army during the Russian Civil War. The unit was formed in March–April 1918 by Colonel Alexei V. Kravtzov to serve with the forces of Don Army in the opening stages of Russian Civil War. Included to the Army Corps of Gen. Tatarkin on May 19. Cossacks from the Ust-Medveditskaya okrug was brought together by Colonel Alexey V. Kravtzov at the stanitsa Ust-Medveditskaya, on Don Republic territories in preparation for an anti
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were Starovers. Even in 1903, a minimum of 150,000 from a total of the 2,500,000 parish members of the Don Eparchy were Starovers. Ataman count Matvei Platov was of a Popovtsy Old Believers Family. Don Cossacks were tolerant of other religions -with the exception of Jews- and accepted Buddhists, Muslims, Old Believers, and pagans into their communities. The Cossacks had a democratic society where the most important decisions were made during a Common Assembly (Казачий Круг). The assembly elected temporary authorities — atamans. Don Cossacks were skilled horsemen
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Don Cossack Region electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)


Cossack list in the district, and a number of Kadet national leaders had visited the area ahead of the election. The effort failed, over differences of opinion on land ownership of non-Cossacks. In Rostov-on-Don the Bolsheviks obtained 25,529 votes, Cossacks 14,248 votes and the Kadets 13,637 votes. In Nakhichevan-on-Don the Bolsheviks obtained 9,172 votes, Kadets 3,426 votes and Cossacks 2,556 votes. In Taganrog the Bolsheviks obtained 9,395 votes (41.7%), the SRs 4,383 votes (19.4%),
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Cossacks shared the fate of the kulaks. According to historian Michael Kort, "During 1919 and 1920, out of a population of approximately 1.5 million Don Cossacks, the Bolshevik regime killed or deported an estimated 300,000 to 500,000". The region also suffered greatly during the Soviet famine of 1932–33 as a result of the Soviet policies. On 20 April 1936 the previous ban on Cossacks serving in the Red Army was lifted. Later the same year two existing Red Army cavalry divisions were re-designated as Don Cossacks. By 1939
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Don Cossack (horse)


with Lord Windermere in third. Only three horses opposed Don Cossack in the Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles Racecourse in January, but they included Champagne Fever who was made favourite. After racing in second, Don Cossack moved up to join Champagne Fever and was left clear when the favourite fell at the last. He came home forty-four length ahead of Texas Jack with another sixty-one lengths back to the outsider Smokey Joe Joe. In March 2015, Don Cossack appeared for the second time at the Cheltenham Festival and started
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Djakadam on 9/2 and Smad Place (Hennessy Gold Cup) on 10/1. The other four runners were Carlingford Lough, O'Faolains Boy, On His Own (runner-up in 2014) and Irish Cavalier. Smad Place and O'Faolains Boy made the running with Djakadam, Don Cossack and Cue Card close behind. Smad Place began to struggle approaching the third last where Cue Card fell. With O'Faolains Boy quickly fading from contention the race lay between Don Cossack and Djakadam on the turn into the straight. Don Cossack opened up a clear
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there appeared the old Ukrainian "Ballad of Cossack Holota" about a Cossack near Kiliya. By the 16th century these Cossack societies merged into two independent territorial organisations as well as other smaller, still detached groups: In addition to these two, one finds mention of the less well-known Tatar Cossacks such as "Nağaybäklär" and Meschera (mishari) Cossacks, of whom Sary Azman was the first Don ataman and which not only were assimilated by Don Cossacks but had their own irregular Bashkir and Meschera Host up to the end
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Novocherkassk


of most Don Cossacks to leave their homes in Cherkassk, and the new capital being from the River Don, with which the Cossacks were closely connected throughout its history. To compensate, there were even plans to deepen the Aksay River (a distributary of the Don) where the new city was located to eventually alter the course of the Don through the city. This plan was abandoned due to lack of funds, and for more than three decades the question of the place of the capital of the Don Cossack remained unresolved,
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please." In 1549 Tsar Ivan the Terrible replied to Suleiman's request that he stop the attacks by the Don Cossacks, saying, "The Cossacks of the Don are not my subjects, and they go to war or live in peace without my knowledge." The major powers tried to exploit Cossack warmongering for their own purposes. In the 16th century, with the power of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth extending south, the Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded by the Commonwealth as their subjects. Registered Cossacks
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less so against the Ottoman Turks to the south. The continued value of the Don and other Cossacks as mounted troops was illustrated by the decision taken in 1916 to dismount about a third of the regular Russian cavalry, but to retain the cossack regiments in their traditional role. At the outbreak of the February 1917 Revolution, three regiments of Don Cossacks (the 1st, 4th and 14th) formed part of the garrison of St. Petersburg. Consisting partly of new recruits from the poorer regions of the Host territory, these units were
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Don Soviet Republic


(Sovnarkom), which was led by Red Cossack Fyodor Podtyolkov. An Extraordinary Staff led by Sergo Ordzhonikidze was also established to organize the defense of the republic. The Don Soviet Republic began to lose support as a result of its food requisitions and executions of suspected "counterrevolutionaries". In April, a general revolt of the Don Cossacks began, and from 1 May German troops also entered its territory, as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Don Cossacks led by Pyotr Krasnov took Rostov-on-Don
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up to 300 Cossacks had been shot, and rumors of executions lists of hundreds of Cossacks from every village, completely upset the Upper Don Cossacks. This led to a spontaneous uprising in the whole district, of which Pavel Kudinov became the leader.br To suppress the uprising, the Red Army was forced to divert 14,000 soldiers from the 8th and 9th armies of the Southern Front.br Despite the massive repression, the Don Cossacks managed, with the support of parts of the Don Army, to contain the onslaught of the expeditionary forces. Thus
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up to the Upper Don province revolting. In Tatarsk, the Melekhov family decide not to retreat with the White cossacks, but Mikhail Koshevoi and other communists begin purging the village of wealthier Cossacks. Piotra is protected by his old military comrade Yakov Fomin, now a Red leader, but Gregor is forced to flee to escape arrest. 2. The Cossacks Rise The Don cossacks rise in response to the executions. Piotra Melekhov, leading the local squadrons, advances against the Reds but is outmaneuvered, captured and ultimately shot by Mikhail
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of Ukraine, from 1792. The eastern and southeastern part of the host was previously administered by the Khopyour and Kuban regiments of the Caucasus Line Cossack Host and Don Cossacks, who were re-settled from the Don from 1777. The Kuban Cossack Host (Кубанское казачье войско), the administrative and military unit composed of Kuban Cossacks, formed in 1860 and existed until 1918. During the Russian Civil War, the Kuban Cossacks proclaimed a Kuban People's Republic, and played a key role in the southern theatre of the conflict
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, to go fishing and hunt with adults. Horse racing was a popular pastime with Don Cossacks. Riders competed to hit a target, firing weapons from horseback. The most dexterous were able to do this standing on the horses back. It was traditional practice for Cossack families to provide a young Cossack with two horses, a uniform and weapons. Cossack leave-taking was always festive. All departing Cossacks would gather in the church, then hang a small bag around their necks containing a pinch of their native soil before setting
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obliged to find work on the side. The tents were then exchanged for barracks in Sofia, provided by the Ministry of Defence. The profit from the-often improvised-concerts was about $ 2,- (approx. 8 German marks at the time). Even so, the debut on 23 June 1923 in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia was excellent for morale. This was followed by an offer from a factory in a French town of Montargis. The wife of the factory owner was Russian, and since the factory already
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has recorded with the Don Cossack Choir and V. Gavva, singing religious songs. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he has recorded "The Birch Tree" (1987), "Distant Northern Town" trio with S. Ivanov and P. Bogachev (1992), "Moscow" (Russian: Черных, Владимир), tenor soloist. With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded "Jet Pilot", "Ballad of the Red Army", "Loyalty" duet (possibly with G. Andryushchenko), "Hail to the Infantry!" with V.
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Konstantin Mamontov


From 1899, he commanded the Third Regiment of Cossacks of the Don. In 1904, he participated actively in the Russo-Japanese War as an officer of the First Chita Regiment, part of the Transbaikal Cossack army. On 24 August 1912 he was promoted colonel. During the First World War he was from July to April 1915 commander of the Nineteenth Don Cossack Regiment, on 8 April 1915 to April 1917 Commander of the Sixth regiment of Don Cossacks, and after his promotion to major general from April 1917 to January 1918
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Russia, Ivan the Terrible, replied to a request of the Turkish Sultan to stop the aggressive actions of the Don Cossacks, stating, "The Cossacks of the Don are not my subjects, and they go to war or live in peace without my knowledge." Similar exchanges passed between Russia, the Ottomans and the Commonwealth; each of which often tried to use the Cossacks' warmongering for his own purposes. The Cossacks for their part were happy to plunder everybody more or less equally. Between the 16th to the 17th
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Until the end of the 16th century, the Don Cossacks inhabited independent free territories. Cossacks of Ryazan are mentioned in 1444 as defenders of Pereslavl-Zalessky against the units of Golden Horde and in a letter of Ivan III of Russia since 1502. After the Golden Horde fell in 1480, the area around the Don River was divided between the Crimean west side and the Nogai east side. On their border since the 14th century the vast steppe of the Don region was populated by those people who were not satisfied with the existing
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Steppe March


The Steppe March (Russian: Степной поход) was a successful military withdrawal by the Don Cossacks in Spring 1918, towards the steppe around the Sal River, to ensure their survival under attack from the Red Army. In January-February 1918, the Red Army had conducted the successful Donbass-Don Operation in which Rostov-on-Don was occupied on February 23, and the Cossack capital Novocherkassk on February 25. The Don Cossack Ataman Alexei Kaledin committed suicide on 11 February 1918. Parts of the White Volunteer Army under
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under the Russian-Polish protectorate. The Don Cossack Host, which had been established by the 16th century, allied with the Tsardom of Russia. Together they began a systematic conquest and colonisation of lands in order to secure the borders on the Volga, the whole of Siberia (see Yermak Timofeyevich) and the Yaik (Ural) and the Terek rivers. Cossack communities had developed along the latter two rivers well before the arrival of the Don Cossacks. By the 18th century Cossack hosts in the Russian Empire occupied effective buffer zones
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cities in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, as these were just two days away by boat from the mouth of the Dnieper river. By 1615 and 1625, Cossacks had razed suburbs of Constantinople, forcing the Ottoman Sultan to flee his palace. In 1637 the Zaporozhian Cossacks, joined by the Don Cossacks, captured the strategic Ottoman fortress of Azov, which guarded the Don. Consecutive treaties between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called for the governments to keep the Cossacks and Tatars in check, but neither enforced
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the way of destiny, he declared: "We will build a Cossack republic right here in Stakhanov!" According to some sources, on September 14, 2014, Don Cossacks in Stakhanov, Ukraine proclaimed the Republic of Stakhanov, and that a "Cossack government" now ruled in Stakhanov. However, the following day, this was claimed to be a fabrication, and an unnamed Don Cossack leader stated the September 14 meeting had, in fact, resulted in 12,000 Cossacks volunteering to join the LPR forces. Pavel Dryomov died
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century the Cossacks again expanded into the Sunzha where they built a new outpost in 1651. Two years later the outpost withstood a hailing attack by Kumyks and Dagestanis. Though the battle ensured the Tsar's respect, it was advised that the Cossacks pull down the outpost. In the 1670s the Terek Cossacks helped to defeat Stenka Razin in Astrakhan. In 1680 after the Raskol in the Russian Orthodox Church reached the Don Cossacks, a number of Old Believers left the Don River and settled first on the Kuma and later on the Agrakhan
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Its highest award was received in 1993 when the choir was awarded the title of "Academic". During the post-USSR years, the Chorus has channeled its energy into the collection and rebirth of the Cossack traditions, demonstrating pride in Ukrainian patriotism and local customs. In August 1995, Patriarch Alexius II allowed the Host to sing church liturgy once again, and from October 1996, by decree of Krasnodar Krai governor Aleksandr Tkachyov, the choir has been recognised as a direct successor to the old Host choir of 1811. Despite
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Alexey V. Kravtsov


Alexei was born in Novocherkassk, Don Host Oblast, to Yesaul Vladimir A. Kravtzov, hero of the Russo-Japanese War of the a Don Cossacks family of Kravtzov. Kravtzov graduated from Novocherkassk Military School for the 1st Class. Yesaul on September 5, 1914. At the start of World War I Alexei Kravtzov was put in charge of the 57th Don Cossacks Regiment. During the opening stages of Russian Civil War Kravtzov served in the Don Army. He organized 1st Cossack Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in March 1918 at the stanitsa Ust-
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up of communally owned clothing factories. A khaki field tunic was adopted in 1908, replacing the dark blue coats or white (summer) blouses previously worn for ordinary duties. However the blue riding breeches with broad red stripes long characteristic of the Don Host, continued to be worn even on active service during both World Wars. "Всколыхнулся, взволновался православный Тихий Дон" written by Fedor Anisimov in 1853. Most Don Cossacks are Russian Orthodox, who consider themselves guardians of the faith. However, a large percentage of Don Cossacks
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guards on national and internal ethnic borders (as was the case in the Caucasus War). During the Russian Civil War, Don and Kuban Cossacks were the first people to declare open war against the Bolsheviks. By 1918 Russian Cossacks declared their complete independence and formed independent states, the Don Republic and the Kuban People's Republic. Also the Ukrainian State emerged. Cossack troops formed the effective core of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and Cossack republics became centers for the anti-Bolshevik White movement. With the victory of
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Nekrasov Cossacks


Nekrasov Cossacks, Nekrasovite Cossacks, Nekrasovites, Nekrasovtsy () descend from those Don Cossacks who, after the defeat of the Bulavin Rebellion of 1707-1708, fled to the Kuban in September 1708, headed by Ignat Nekrasov, hence their name. At that time the Crimean Khanate ruled the Kuban. Later, other fugitives from the Don and runaway Russian serfs joined the Nekrasov Cossacks. The Nekrasovites were Old Believers, and hence persecuted by Orthodox Russian authorities. Initially, the Nekrasovites settled by the right bank of the Bolshaya Laba
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Cossacks in Turkey


Cossacks in Turkey refers to descendants of a group of Don Cossacks who had lived in the territory of the Republic of Turkey until they migrated in 1962. A group of Don Cossacks took part in the Bulavin Rebellion in opposition to reforms of Peter the Great. After their defeat, starting from 1737, they began to take refuge in the Ottoman Empire and moved from the Kuban region where some of them, known as Nekrasov Cossacks, had settled earlier. A group settled around Constanţa on the Black Sea coast, while another group
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Rostov, and did military service in the Urals. After that, he studied music at the University of Donetsk in Ukraine. After graduating, he became an operatic soloist. In 1987 he joined the Ensemble as a bass soloist, and became People's Artist of the USSR. He did a 1996 tour to Japan with the National Opera Theatre of Leningrad, singing in Modest Mussorgsky's opera" Boris Godunov". He broadcast with the Don Cossack Choir, and recorded in 1994 and 1995. In 2002 he performed with the
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Michael Minsky


Michael (Gregory) Minsky, (Михаил (Григорий) Минский) born Michael Spirin (Spiridonov), also known as Mino Minzer and between Ukrainians as Myhailo Minsky (12 August 1918, Bagaevo, Tatarstan – 9 October 1988, Zwolle, Netherlands) was a baritone singer, one of the finest interpreters of Russian and Ukrainian songs, and a conductor of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. Since early childhood, Minsky showed an interest in music and culture. He mastered the bayan (accordion) and showed his talents as
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Don Cossacks


." The most known is the Almighty Don Host Outside Russia, formerly under chief Major general and last chevalier of the Order of St. George, Ataman Nikolai Vasilievich Fedorov (1901—2003), and since February 2006 under J. L. Miheev. Since 2014, an unknown number of Don Cossacks have participated in the war in Eastern Ukraine as independent volunteers. Reportedly several military formations were formed though most of these groups were subsequently disbanded and integrated into the armed forces of the DPR and LPR. The Don Cossacks flag 3:4 was inaugurated during
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Don Republic


The Don Republic (, later known as the Almighty Don Host, or , "Vsevelikoe Voisko Donskoe"), was an independent self-proclaimed anti-Bolshevik republic formed by the Armed Forces of South Russia on the territory of Don Cossacks against another self-proclaimed Don Soviet Republic. The Don Republic existed during the Russian Civil War after the collapse of the Russian Empire from 1918 to 1920. The assembly of the Don Cossacks — the "Krug" — proclaimed the independence of the Don Republic on May 18, 1918
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Mikhail Sholokhov


Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (; – 21 February 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, "And Quiet Flows the Don". Sholokhov was born in Russia, in the "land of the Cossacks" – the Kruzhilin hamlet, part of stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, in the former Administrative Region of the Don Cossack Army
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gave public concerts throughout the Krasnodar Krai. These concerts would include classical works as well as folk songs in addition to sacred works. In summer of 1921, under the Decossackization programme of the Bolshevik authorities, the Cossack Host was dissolved, being revived only in 1936. The choir was then headed by Grigory Kontsevich and Yakov Taranko, formally regents of the old Kuban Chorus. A year later, during the Purges, Kontsevich was arrested and then executed. The choir however continued to grow, and in 1939 with the addition of
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Novocherkassk


Military Region took place, where the status of the historical and modern center of the Don Cossacks was established in the city, officially making Novocherkassk the capital of the Don Cossacks. On July 17-18, 1993, a meeting of the United Supreme Circle of Cossack troops of Russia and abroad was held in Moscow, where Novocherkassk was proclaimed the world capital of the Cossacks. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Novocherkassk Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
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and/or Austrian controlled territories on the Danube or after life on Bug and Dniester to the Kuban region, where they live to this date (see Kuban Cossacks) "This section derives originally from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica" In the Russian Empire the Cossacks constituted 11 separate Cossack voiskos, settled along the frontiers: the Don Cossacks, Kuban Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, Astrakhan Cossacks, Ural Cossacks, Orenburg Cossacks, Siberian Cossacks, Semiryechensk Cossacks, Baikal Cossacks, Amur Cossacks, and Ussuri Cossacks. Also, there was a small number
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Don Army


The Don Army (, ) was the military of the short lived Don Republic and a part of the White movement in the Russian Civil War. It operated from 1918 to 1920, in the Don region and centered in the town of Novocherkassk. After the October Revolution in 1917, a conflict in the Don broke out between the "Red" Bolsheviks and "White" Don Cossacks. In Novocherkassk, an assembly of Cossacks, the "Krug", elected Alexei Kaledin as the first independent ataman since the days of Peter
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Museum of Don Cossacks


The Museum of history of Don Cossacks (, ) is a museum of art, culture and history of Don Cossacks in Novocherkassk, Rostov oblast, Russia. The oldest museum in Southern Russia, it was founded in 1886. Its collections, of which only 151,000 items is on permanent display, comprise over 200,000 items. The collections occupy a complex of four historic buildings in Novocherkassk: the main building on Atamanskaya street, Memorial House-Museum of painter Ivan Krylov, Memorial House-Museum of painter Mitrofan Grekov and the Ataman
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' was also applied to migrants, free-booters and bandits. The exact origins of Cossacks are unknown. In the modern view, Don Cossacks are descendants of Slavic people, who came from the Dnieper, Novgorod Republic, and Principality of Ryazan, and of Goths-Alans people originating from the Western part of North Caucasus. More than two thousand years ago the Scythians lived on the banks of the river Don. Many Scythian tombs have been found in this area. Subsequently, the area was inhabited by the Khazars and
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St. Dimitry's Church, Novocherkassk


funded by Don Cossacks and various merchants, and was completed in 1859. The designer of the project was the famous architect Ivan Valprede. In 1901 a parish school was opened at the church, and it still continues to function. There was also once a chapel dedicated to the memory of Cossacks who died in First World War. At the cemetery were buried the first elected Ataman of the Don Cossacks since the time of Peter I, Alexey Kaledin (his grave has not been preserved); Don historian V. Sukhorukov; the
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Ivan Krasnov


at the Russo-Turkish War, 1828–1829, and subdued the Polish rebels during the November Uprising in 1831. Afterwards, he returned home to the Don Voisko Province. In 1838, Ivan Krasnov was elected the director of the board of the Don Cossack Voisko and assistant to the Ataman for civil affairs. In 1841–1842 he served as Cossack field chieftain of Don Cossack Voisko regiments in the Caucasus and wrote the book "Notes on the War in Caucasus" ("Записки о кавказской войне"). In 1843–1848 he commanded the
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Nicolai Gedda


Peter Ustinov), who sang bass in Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church. Gedda grew up bilingual in Swedish and Russian, and from 1929 to 1934 when his family were living in Leipzig, Germany, he learned German. At the age of 5 Gedda took part in a vocal quartet in the orthodox church in the city. They returned to Sweden in 1934, and the boy attended Katarina Secondary School and the Södra Grammar School. In school he learned English, French and Latin
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Victor Ivanoff


Zagreb. His studies were abandoned and he joined the Don Cossack Choir on their world tour which included visiting South Africa in 1936. Africa appealed to Ivanoff and he stayed on, first being employed as political cartoonist by "Noticias", a Portuguese newspaper in Lourenço Marques, before finding work as a cartoonist at the Afrikaans newspaper in Johannesburg, "Die Vaderland", a position he held for 37 years. Joel Mervis recounts that Ivanoff was recruited from Moçambique by the "Rand Daily Mail", but because of his poor
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Bantcho Bantchevsky


found a career for himself performing on Rakovska Street in Sofia, known as "Bulgaria's Broadway", and became well known during the 1930s; however, he chose to leave Bulgaria when it became an ally of the Soviet Union during World War II. He spent the 1940s finding work around Europe, singing opera in Czechoslovakia and Vienna, and becoming a member of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. He also appeared in films and plays in Berlin, including a small part in a performance of "Macbeth". Early
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undertook, the Kuban Cossack identity has produced one of the most distinct cultures not only amongst other Cossacks but throughout the whole Eastern Slavic identity. The proximity to the Caucasus mountains and the Circassian people influenced the dress and uniform of the Cossacks — the distinctive cherkeska overcoat and the bashlyk scarf, local dance such as the Lezginka too came into the Kuban Cossack lifestyle. At the same time, the Cossacks continued much of their Zaporozhian legacy, including a Kuban Bandura movement and the Kuban Cossack Choir which became one of the most famous
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a separate Russian sub-ethnical group. The Kuban Cossacks living in Krasnodar Kray, Adygea, Karachayevo-Cherkessia and some regions of Stavropol Krai and Kabardino-Balkaria counted 25,000 men. However, the strict governance of the census meant that only Cossacks who are in active service were treated as such, and at the same time 300,000 families are registered by the Kuban Cossack Host. Kuban Cossacks not politically affiliated with the Kuban Cossack Host, such as the director of the Kuban Cossack Choir Viktor Zakharchenko, have maintained at various times
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the Kornilov putsch in 1917. Then it became clear that this putsch, and more importantly, the role of the Cossacks in these events, would not be understood without a Cossack prehistory, and so I began with the description of the life of the Don Cossacks just before the beginning of World War I. (quote from "M.A. Sholokhov: Seminarii", (1962) by F.A. Abramovic and V.V. Gura, quoted in "Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov", by L.L. Litus.) Grigori Melekhov is reportedly based on two Cossacks from
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Cossacks (sculpture composition)


"Cossacks" sculptures symbolize the military glory of the Don Cossacks as a whole and the feat of the 4th Guards Kuban Cossack Cavalry Corps during the Great Patriotic War. The sculpture composition consists of two towers-columns located on both sides of the last lock (№ 15) of Volga–Don Shipping Canal. Massive pedestals are topped with bronze statues of horsemen. The pedestals are designed in the style of early classicism. They are decorated with fielded panel. The monument is 9 m height; width is 4.5 m at
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Matvei Platov


Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov (8 (19) August 1753 – 3 (15) January 1818) was a Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars and founded Novocherkassk as the new capital of the Don Host Province. Platov was born in Pribilyanskoe and began his service in the Don Cossacks in 1766 becoming an yesaul in 1769. He distinguished himself in the 1771 Crimean campaign and was promoted to the command of a Cossack regiment in 1772. Between 1774 and 1784 he fought against the Crimean Tatars, in 1774
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Alexey Kaledin


Aleksei Maximovich Kaledin (; 24 October 1861 – 11 February 1918) was a Don Cossack Cavalry General who led the Don Cossack White movement in the opening stages of the Russian Civil War. Kaledin was born in 1861, in Ust' Khoperskaya, Saratov Governorate, to a Don Cossack officer. He graduated from the Voronezh Military School, the Mikhaylovskoye Artillery School in Saint Petersburg (1882) and the General Staff Academy (1889). From 1903 to 1906, he served as principal at the Novocherkassk Military School. From 1906 to
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Vitali Gubarev


Vitali Georgievich Gubarev (, — 1981) was a Soviet Russian writer of children's literature. Gubarev was born in Rostov-on-Don (modern-day Rostov Oblast of Russia). According to the official Soviet biography, his parents were teachers. In reality his father, Georgy Vitalievich Gubarev, came from an ancient family of Don Cossacks of Russian nobility; during the Russian Civil War he fought Bolsheviks as part of the 6th Don Cossack Regiment and the 2nd Combined Cossack Division, then left for Poland in 1920,
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