• several months after Vasili III of Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova, on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the Cossack robber Kudeyar?
• the Cossack Hetman and the later Muscovite voyevoda Petro Doroshenko signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV recognizing the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire?
• the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
• the legend of the Gold of Polubotok says that Cossack Pavlo Polubotok (pictured) deposited 200,000 gold coins at the Bank of England in 1723 and that the money owed to Ukraine is supposedly valued at twenty times the world's gold reserve?
• in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack-Tatar alliance?
• in the Battle of Loyew (pictured) in 1649, dismounted Polish hussars took a Cossack wagon fort?
• Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, despite battles between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, Russian, Polish, German, and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
• Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin, Poland was burnt down during the Cossack–Muscovite invasion in 1655?
• Taras Fedorovych, a 17th century Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register?
• Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the Mexican Cossack, spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I?

Facts on topics related to Cossack

Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks

• Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium?

Cossack Host

• the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?

Cossacks

• Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks?
• Mykhailo Krychevsky, a respected military commander, switched sides during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, joining the Cossacks, and died soon afterwards in the Battle of Loyew?