The book by military historian and writer A. V. Shishov tells about the lives and deeds of one hundred great Cossacks, the most outstanding representatives of the Cossacks in the entire history of our Fatherland - from the legendary Ilya Muromets to the writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The Cossacks are a unique military service class that made a huge contribution to the formation of Moscow Rus' and the Russian Empire. This community of free people, created over centuries, produced from its midst famous explorers and military leaders, rebels and hierarchs of the Orthodox Church, researchers and writers. Even the list of Cossack troops and formations is impressive: Don and Zaporozhye, Yaik (Ural) and Terek, Ukrainian registered and Caucasian linear, Volga and Astrakhan, Black Sea and Bug, Orenburg and Kuban, Siberian and Yakut, Transbaikal and Amur, Semirechensk and Ussuri...< /p>