Books
Popko I. D. Black Sea Cossacks in their civil and military life. Sketches of the region, society, armed force and service : in seventeen stories, with an epilogue, maps and four drawings from nature : in 2 parts / Ivan Popko. – St. Petersburg : printing house of P. A. Kulish, 1858. – The book includes a map of the Chornomorya, made by the Boundary Committee of the Chornomorsk Cossack Army in 1857.
Part 1. – 1858. – XIV, [1], 177 p., [1] insert. l. : ill.
Part 2. – 1858. – PP. 178-292, II, [2] p., [4] insert. l. : ill., map.
The book by Ivan Diomydovych Popko (1819-1893), a Ukrainian liberal historian, ethnographer, and descendant of the Zaporizhzhian Sich Cossacks, is a detailed historical and ethnographic study that introduces the reader to the economic, domestic, and military activities of the Black Sea Cossacks. The author describes in detail both the civilian and military aspects of Cossack life, recreating their system and military organisation, everyday traditions and cultural peculiarities. The book consists of seventeen short stories, supplemented by an epilogue, a map, and four illustrations that add to the visual and authenticity of the study. Despite Popko's idealisation of the Cossacks, his work is a valuable source for historians, ethnographers, and anyone interested in the Cossacks and Ukrainian history.