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Cossacks of Southern Russia
 
 
 
 
 
Cossacks of southern Russia.  The Cossacks, "a free, wild people, accustomed to live in the saddle," are of mixed race.  They number 3,000,000 (in 1922).  Many served as cavalrymen in the tsar's army.


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