Everything You Didn't Know About the Cossacks and Wanted to Ask (20.12.2024)
A street-format “debate” video in which the historian explains the social, everyday, and economic history of the Cossacks. The article draws on the segment about the fate of the Zaporozhians after the liquidation of the Sich in 1775 (the Kuban, the Danubian Sich), the difference between the Sich and the zymivnyky, the social stratification of the Cossacks, and Cossack trades. A source for the article on the Lithuanian-Polish and Cossack era.
Key moments
- 01:03 After the liquidation of the Sich in 1775 — some Cossacks to the Kuban, some to the Ottoman Empire; the Danubian Sich until 1828
- 03:30 The Sich (a military camp without women) vs. the zymivnyky (homestead farms) and social stratification of the Cossacks
- 06:01 Cossack trades: salt, potash (a component of gunpowder), hunting, fish — an economy, not only war