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Cossack

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Cossack
(formerly) any of the free warrior-peasants of chiefly East Slavonic descent who lived in communes, esp in Ukraine, and served as cavalry under the tsars

Cossack 

(Turkic, “a daring, free man”), a person who broke with his social environment (14th to 17th century); at the end of the 15th century the term “cossack” was applied to the free people living at the edges of the Russian state.



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Dirkovitch was a Russian - a Russian of the Russians - who appeared to get his bread by serving the Czar as an officer in a Cossack regiment, and corresponding for a Russian newspaper with a name that was never twice alike.
The Grand Duke was dressed in the handsome and showy uniform of a Cossack officer.
Some time after this we saw them move a little to our right, and expected them on the rear: when a cunning fellow, a Cossack of Jarawena, calling to the leader of the caravan, said to him, "I will send all these people away to Sibeilka.
 
 
 
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