A Live Border: Cossack Maneuvers in the Context of Colonization (the Late Sixteenth to thr Early Seventeenth Century)

The Cossacks personified a “live border” in the southern Russian periphery (ukraina), one that maneuvered between the Muscovite state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Khanate, and the Nogai Horde. In the Field (Pole), where free and servant (sluzhilye) Cossacks came into contact, Rus...

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Main Author: Andrei V. Golovnev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Publishing House “Belgorod” 2016-12-01
Series:Tractus Aevorum
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Online Access:http://belsu-tractus-aevorum.ru/images/stories/6/01_Golovnev.pdf