This extensive historical work was written by Andrei Andreevich Gordeev, a hereditary Don Cossack, a front-line officer who served in the Don White Cossack Army. Even during the author’s lifetime, the book became a noticeable phenomenon in the publications of the white emigration. “History of the Cossacks” surprisingly combined the military chronicle of Russia and the chronicle of the military affairs of the Russian Cossacks. The author talks not only about the most important battles, but also about small battles that brought glory to Russian weapons. Readers will get acquainted with the historical destinies of all the Cossack troops of the Russian state: Don and Ural, Kuban and Terek, Orenburg and Astrakhan, Siberian and Semirechensky, Transbaikal and Yenisei, Amur and Ussuri.