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Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytsky Yermak Timofeyevich Yemelyan Pugachov Mazepa, Ivan Cossack
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Also Known As Kazak

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Zaporozhian Cossacks
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Yermak Timofeyevich
Yemelyan Pugachov
Mazepa, Ivan
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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
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Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin
Russian military officer
Mazepa, Ivan
Ivan Mazepa
Ukrainian Cossack leader
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Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
Yermak Timofeyevich
Yermak Timofeyevich
Russian folk hero