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All Cossack males had to perform military service for 20 years, beginning at the age of 18. They spent their first three years in the preliminary division, the next 12 in active service, and the last five years in the reserve. Every Cossack had to procure his own uniform, equipment and horse (if mounted), the government supplying only the arms.
The Cossacks were given a banner that denoted their relationship to the state army and Bereg promised to pay them in Cherkasky on Saint Nicolas Day. [3] The Cossacks evidently were paid only after the Siege of Pskov in 1581. Even though the official register consisted of only 500 names, in reality the contingent of registered Cossacks numbered ...
The service of the Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars led them to be celebrated as Russian folk heroes, and throughout the 19th century a "powerful myth" was promoted by the government that portrayed the Cossacks as having a special and unique bond to the Emperor. [82]
After a lengthy assembly process supervised by SS Führungshauptamt in the Independent State of Croatia between November 1944 and March 1945, [1]: 149 in whose reserve the division remained during formation, [8]: 494 the division was attached to the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps and assigned to Army Group E, [1]: 149 serving in German-occupied Yugoslavia.
On active service during World War I the Terek Cossacks retained their distinctive dress but with a dark waistcoat replacing the conspicuous light blue one and without the silver ornaments or blue facings of full dress. A black felt cloak (bourki) was worn in bad weather both in peace-time and on active service. [12]
The Cossacks who remained in Russia endured more than a decade of continual repression, e.g., the portioning of the lands of the Terek, Ural and Semirechye hosts, forced cultural assimilation and repression of the Russian Orthodox Church, deportation and, ultimately, the Soviet famine of 1932–33.
The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps [a] was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks.It was originally known as the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps from September 1944, after Helmuth von Pannwitz's 1st Cossack Cavalry Division of the Wehrmacht was transferred to the SS, before being renumbered as XV in February 1945.
In peacetime, the registered Cossacks are used for the following activities and functions: conservation, protection and restoration of forests; patriotic education of young people and their preparation for military service; Assistance in natural disasters, accidents, catastrophes and other emergencies; extinguishing forest fires and other fires; protection of public order; Border protection ...