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Cossack folk festival, Stanitsa Veshinskaya.

Ataman of the Don region, Vasili Kaledin addresses his men in front of Cossack Headquarters, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

A gathering of Cossacks in Veshenskaya.

Neither a nationality nor ethnic group, Cossacks are more like an exclusive society.

in earlier times, Cossacks would shave their heads except for a pigtail. Today, Cossack soldiers, like This one, shave their heads before battle.

Atamans and elders during the reburial of Count Platov.

Under communism, it would have been a crime for Lodmilla Larina's four grandsons to wear or even own a Cossack uniform.

Young Cossacks are expected to master the gentlemanly arts, including ballroom dancing.

A Cossack leader in Rostov-on-Don, center, addresses an informal meeting about problems of the local government.

In Cathedral Square in Novocherkassk, highest ranking atamon Victor Ratiev, presides over the reburial of Count Matuey Platov, a Napoleonic War hero.