cossacks

After Germany wins World War I (no unrestricted submarine warfare, successful Spring Offensive etc.), pro-German Imperial Russian Army officer Pyotr Krasnov approaches General Ludendorff with a plan to weaken the Bolsheviks even further than Brest-Litovsk already had by creating an independent...

Quoting the much-maligned Wikipedia: I'm aware that the Cossacks weren't major fans of the Turks, but for the sake of a thought exercise, let's suppose that the Cossack Hetmanate becomes a Turkish vassal without too much trouble. What are the effects on Ukraine's and Russia's developments as...

I'm thinking a Time of Troubles PoD. Suppose it results in a weaker, conquered, or more westward looking Russia; what do you think might happen to Siberia? I heard something about an indigenous uprising during the time of troubles, but Russian troops were ultimately able to put them down. If...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugachev%27s_Rebellion Always found it to be an underrated event that doesn't get brought up much. (Amusingly, it's mentioned in Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide as the context for one of the undead outbreaks.) The idea of Russia being threatened by a big...

The Albazinians were decendants of Russian Cossacks who defected to the Chinese Empire in the Russia-Qing border wars of the 17th century. This Russo-Chinese ethnic group was never large and most Albazinians seem to have lost their unique identity by 20/21st century...

Just found this comment in this amazing video. Now, you have to make a slavic or slavic-descended group inhabiting the UK who are effectively scottish cossacks.

Your challenge is to create a united homeland for Cossacks of all groups that's at least officially a nation state in its own right. Think of it as a kind of "Cossack Israel".

December 12, 1918 - Kiev Koni versty rvuť nametom, Nam svoboda doroha, Čerez proriz kulemeta Ja šukaju v stepu voroha. Anarchija-mama syniv svojich ljubiť, Anarchija-mama ne prodasť, Svincevym doščem voroha priholubyť, Anarchija-mama za nas! Zustričaly vohnem kindžaľnym, Jak bližče pidpušču...

What if the Cossack revolt led by Stenka Razin in early 1670's Russia had been much more successful in its scope? I don't think Razin could have succeeded in utterly destroying the tsarist government -- the boyars, the tsar and the patriarchate were against him for the entirety of the rebellion...

19th Century Polish nationalist and poet Adam Mickiewicz had a dream. Well, he had lots of dreams, poets are like that. But Mickiewicz had a dream of an independent Poland, and lots of other dreams sprang from that. For example, he had a fascination with the Jewish people, and he believed that...

Could cossacks carve out independant states outside the Russian Empire. This is not to be confused with carving out states from the Russian Empire. These cossaks can be member of cossack hosts supported by the Russian Empire or opposed by the Russian Empire. How might such a state look like...

PART I Chapter I- The Judgement of the Great Tsar Nikolai Ashinov sits impatiently. Sitting on a chair inside the Gatchina palace waiting to have an audience with the great Romanov. He had long been fascinated with the land of Abyssinia and believed it one of the greatest lands of...

So I had an ambitious idea to write my first timeline on this site, and I need some help. I really wanted to do one on A Russian Ethiopia and had a particular idea in mind. This was the timeline I would be basing it off of...

OTL: At the Yalta conference the allies agreed to repatriate all soviet citizens to the Soviet Union. Amonge these citizens were the Lienz Cossacks. Nikolai Tolstoy quotes a General Alexander telegram, sent to the Combined Chiefs of Staff, noting "50,000 Cossacks including 11,000 women...

Yakutian horses and Yakutian cattle are interesting, polar-adapted breeds raised by the native Yakutian people of the Sakha Republic. The Yakutian horse is noted for its adaptation to the extreme cold climate of Yakutia, including the ability to locate and graze on vegetation that is under...

The first part is that Hetman Khmelnytsky continues his attack on Poland through the election King Jon II so as to not lose momentum. Then perhaps defeating and/or capturing the King as he was almost captured at the battle of Zbroriv, except earlier on, and farther west. Would Poland actually...

In a late Byzantine restoration scenario where Anatolia has already been Turkified, but Constantinople retakes parts of Asia Minor, what would be the Byzantine analogue to Iberian Moriscos and Mudéjares or Russian Cossacks? Also, if large numbers of Turks converted to Orthodoxy, would the Greek...

If Kievan Rus remained united and wasn't invaded by the Mongols, and East Slavs settled Siberia several centuries before they did historically, how populated could Siberia theoretically become? In this case, Siberia would be settled to agricultural carrying capacity by the end of the...