With horses only just recovering from an epidemic, they proved quite unequal to the task of catching the Cossacks, who swarmed round them in every direction, never accepting an engagement but compelling a constant watchfulness for which nothing in their previous experience had sufficiently prepared
In the expected war with Poland, which followed quickly, the Russians were so successful that the arrangement was upheld; but it was soon found that the Cossacks, though they professed unbounded devotion to the Orthodox tsar, disliked Muscovite, quite as much as Polish, interference in their interna
This further act of repression led to two terrible Cossack risings, in 1635 and 1636, put down only with the utmost difficulty, whereupon the diet of 1638 deprived the Cossacks of all their ancient privileges, abolished the elective hetmanship, and substituted for it a commission of Polish noblemen
The rank and file of the Tatar soldiery were known as Kazaki, or Cossacks, a word meaning freebooters, and this term came to be applied indiscriminately to all the free dwellers in the Ukraine, or border-lands.
cossacks הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד