Cossacks and Chechens: A Caucasus Cauldron

By admin • Mar 29th, 1994 • Category: Moscow Times, War

NAURSKAYA, Russia — Legend has it that in 1774 the women and children of Naurskaya fought off an attack by the Turks, armed only with pitchforks and pots of hot soup.

As Cossacks, Russian warrior-farmers, it was their duty under the Tsars to defend Christian Russia’s expanding southern borders against Moslem Tatars and Turks.

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