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This book is a fascinating, vivid account of the glorious history of the Zaporozhian Sich - from its origins to its criminal destruction by the Russian tsar.

An unusual story of the book's creation. Professor of Kyiv University V.B. Antonovych (1834-1908) secretly taught students the history of the Cossacks during the 1895-1896 academic year.

Fascinated students took detailed notes of the historian's brilliant lectures, and later the manuscript, edited by O. Konissky, was published away from the evil eye of Russian censorship in Chernivtsi (1897) and Kolomyia (1912)...