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Zaporozhian Cossacks
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Yermak Timofeyevich
Yemelyan Pugachov
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Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin
Russian military officer
Mazepa, Ivan
Ivan Mazepa
Ukrainian Cossack leader
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
Yermak Timofeyevich
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian folk hero