concept
Cossack
also: казак
A member of the Cossack military communities of the Russian Empire, who served as cavalry and frontier troops; a stock figure of martial rescue in period anecdote.
Reading notes
- A Heroine of a Lady §12 Cossack
A member of the Cossack military communities of the Russian Empire, who served as cavalry and frontier troops; here the general's conveniently nearby rescuer.
- The Cossack §41 He served the Tsar, maybe shed his blood
Maxim's late remorse reaches for the Cossack's military service and the possibility of wounds taken "for the Tsar" -- i.e., in the Russian Empire's service -- as an argument for the debt of hospitality owed him; Cossack cavalry and frontier units were a stock image of martial duty and sacrifice in period Russian culture, which is precisely why Maxim's guilt fastens on this detail rather than simple charity alone.
- The Bride §131 the Cossacks
A member of the Cossack military communities of the Russian Empire; "running off to the Cossacks" was old shorthand for striking out toward freedom, the same feeling Nadya recognizes in her own flight toward study.
Mentioned in 29 works (96 mentions)
To M. M. Chekhov, 1 January 1877. Taganrog.
To Yu. I. Lyadova, 18 November 1879. Moscow.
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
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