Don Republic - How The Legendary Cossacks Managed Their Statehood - Almost a Country - Episode 3

Emperor Napoleon said: “Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.“ But do good soldiers also make good governors? There isn’t any Cossack nation-state today, but there used to be several. This episode is about one of those, which almost came to be, but it eventually didn’t work out. This is the story about the Almighty Don Host of the Cossacks and their Republic. Next time we will take a look at Gabrielle D’Annunzio’s Ital