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Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 at The Ukrainian Museum thru May 2, 2012
Posted by Frank on June 17, 2002 at 11:03:59:
In Reply to: Re: Kuban Cossacks posted by Andrew on June 14, 2002 at 18:08:35:
Thank you for your help Andrew!
: From the Columbia Encyclopedia:
: "..the Kuban region was from about the mid-18th cent. to 1920 the territory of the Kuban Cossacks. After Catherine II defeated (1775) the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks in Ukraine, some of them emigrated to Turkey, but in 1787 they were allowed to return and settle along the Black Sea between the Dnieper and the Buh rivers. Then known as the Black Sea Cossacks, they were in 1792 resettled in the Kuban region. Though they lost much of their freedom and their rights were restricted, they were granted local self-government in return for military service. In 1860 they were renamed the Kuban Cossacks, while defending the Kuban region from hostile Circassian mountaineers to the south. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Kuban Cossacks proclaimed an independent republic and fought against the Bolsheviks. After the civil war of 1918–20 the Soviet regime abolished their government, and their traditional privileges were abrogated."
: So it looks they were Ukrainians.
: : I was told by my father that my grandfather was a Seech-Kuban Cossack. Does anyone know any websites or books writen on Seech-Kuban Cossack? Also are the Seech-Kuban Cossack a distinct ethnic group or they belong to the Ukrainians or the Russians ethnic groups? I thank you for you help!