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After his death, Ivan Sirko – one of the most popular otamans in Ukrainian history [citation needed] – was remembered as a legendary Cossack, a military genius, and became a hero of many myths, folk songs and poems.
Zaporozhian Cossack military leader. He served as colonel of Vinnytsia regiment (1658–60) and was elected Kish otaman of the Zaporozhian Host eight times in the 1660s and 1670s.
The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in a characteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities.
The sultan supposedly demanded the Cossacks to surrender by boasting about his titles and power, and the Cossacks, allegedly commanded by a man named Ivan Sirko (or "Zaxarcenko") sent an insulting sarcastic reply in which they vowed to fight against the sultan.
Ivan Sirko was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host, born around 1610 and died around 1680.
Dec 22, 2022 · Now he's a senior lieutenant in the army's 92nd Mechanized Brigade, which is named after Ivan Sirko, a 17th-Century Cossack military leader. The intelligence platoon Eugene...
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A painting by Ilya Repin based on a legend of Cossacks sending a letter to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV in 1676. The letter is full of insults and vulgarities, led by Ivan Sirko, the Koshovyi otaman of the Zaporozhian Host.
