| The tale is set in the Ukraine, among the Cossacks of the great Zaporozhian Sech. |
| There were only Russians, Tatars, Poles, Cossacks, and Kalmucks, and a number of the figures are repeated. |
| But the Swedes and Cossacks lost, and Peter destroyed the hetman's capital and the hetmanate itself. |
| The Streltsy and the Cossacks were professional units but they were officered by foreigners. |
| He had infantry, cavalry, arquebusiers, Cossacks and many Tartars, with heavy artillery, which was shipped down the Volga. |
| They proudly call themselves Cossacks, and believe they have a mission to defend Russian Orthodoxy and to keep the Crimean Tatars in check. |
