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Cossacks
Daniel Galachowski (Danylo Haliakhovskyi), The Triumph of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, 1708, engraving, detail, Warsaw National Museum.
Cossack weapons: Pernach, saber, powder magazine, two flintlocks, whip.
Church with carriages
Tarnovsky Vasyl (junior) in national costume
Cossack Mamai
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Ukrainians
Living Echo of the Cossack Elite: Georgiy Narbut in Paraska Apostol’s Kontusz with Kelep and Colonel MiloradovychIn the photograph, Georgiy Narbut stands in the Cossack hall of the Tarnovsky Museum (now a room of the Chernihiv Regional Library for Youth), fully immersed in a historical Ukrainian image. He is dressed in the kontusz of Paraska Apostol, daughter of Hetman Danylo Apostol, holding a kelep in his right hand, while to his right stands Colonel Mykhailo “Cannon” Miloradovych. This staged yet documentary scene shows Narbut not just studying Cossack-era artifacts, but literally wearing them, turning himself into a living embodiment of the Ukrainian noble-Cossack past.
