Cossacks of the Upper Don District - knights of St. George
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Rostov-na-Donu
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In 2024, 110 years have passed since Russia entered the First World War (also known as the Great or Imperialist War). We, the descendants, must study the history of this grand and tragic event with reverence and attention. And not only because our ancestors fought bravely and heroically for the independence of their Motherland, performing astonishing feats and enduring many hardships, sometimes artificially created by military structures in the rear, by suppliers, theft, and betrayal. But because the outcome of that war was the collapse of a great and beautiful country, followed by a civil war that led to the destruction of the nation’s finest on both sides, to persecution of faith and dissent, to crimes and sacrilege — a monstrous, unimaginable price that must never be repeated.
Author: Yuri I. Kartashov (b. 1968) is a Cossack of the rural locality (a stanitsa) Vyoshenskaya, poet, journalist, and Ataman of the Upper Don District (since 1992).
