You won’t even be herding pigs for the Christians. So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Pig’s snout, mare’s arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. We have no fear of your army by land and by sea we will battle with thee. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil’s kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself.
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! Maybe it would be more accurate to say, they straightforwardly replied with insults and some profanities: The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied less politely. The sultan sent a very elegant letter where, in addition, he emphasized his importance for the contemporary world:Īs the sultan son of Muhammad brother of the sun and moon grandson and viceroy of God ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt emperor of emperors sovereign of sovereigns extraordinary knight, never defeated steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ trustee chosen by God Himself the hope and comfort of Muslims confounder and great defender of Christians – I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. However, Sultan Mehmed IV demanded that the Cossacks submit to Ottoman rule which, even now, doesn’t sound right. So what was the story of the Zaporozhian Cossacks’ reply? In 1676 the Zaporozhian Cossacks had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. Even a direct reference to the Cossack tradition can be found in the anthem of Ukraine. Today’s Ukraine recognizes the history of the Zaporozhian Cossacks as an integral part of its own history and one of the most important sources of national identity. In the 20th century, after the 1918 Revolution, they were against the Bolsheviks, and that caused them to be murdered and sent to the Gulag concentration camps. In 1775 Catherine the Great, the empress of Russia, ordered the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich and Cossack autonomy.
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They were free people, who through the 17th and 18th centuries were fighting against (but sometimes allies with) all of the empires around – the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tsardom of Russia, Crimean Khanate, and Ottoman Empire. Until at least the 1630s, Cossack groups remained ethnically and religiously open to anybody, although the Slavic element predominated. Their semi-autonomous policy and proto-state were called Zaporozhian Sich. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins, and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of Ukraine. The Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities originating in the steppes of mostly today’s Ukraine.
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