Cossack weapons: Pernach, saber, powder magazine, two flintlocks, whip. | Ukraine in color
End of 19 century
Cossack weapons: Pernach, saber, powder magazine, two flintlocks, whip.
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Cossacks
Black Sea Cossacks
Daniel Galachowski (Danylo Haliakhovskyi), The Triumph of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, 1708, engraving, detail, Warsaw National Museum.
Tarnovsky Vasyl (junior) in national costume
Cossack Mamai
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.
