10-13-2009, 03:02 AM
Believe me when I tell you I know he is a "whack job." Your hyphenated word choice "self-important" pretty much sums up this fellow.
As for the Cossack culture, I remember that some groups were given specific titles via awards or honors by the Romanov's - particularly Ekaterina (if I am remembering what I saw in the Hermitage on one of my walk-throughs correctly).
When I think of Cossacks, I often picture Yuliy "Yul" Borisovich Brynner who played the part of a Cossack in one of his films - not The Brothers Karamazov or Westworld (my personal favorite), but one of the Southern or Eastern Russian roles he had. I think he played a Cossack Partisan in a WWII film. Anyway, he's how I picture Cossacks, which is like saying John Wayne is my archetypal cowboy - which Brynner did very well also in The Magnificent Seven. What all this has to do with the badge and your very informative piece of personal insight on Cossacks, I don't know anymore. Perhaps my cold medicine is getting the better of me.:weird
Regardless, thank you for the information as always. We are lucky to have you as a resource.:thumbsup
And speaking of resources:
Alexei, what wrong with "representatives of the Cossack troops"? I don't know the context of what you are asking about, so please excuse my interruption.:)
At the same time, there is a severely undocumented statement regarding "stanitsas" on the one place I never let my students go - Wikipedia: "Stanitsa (Russian: стани́ца, pronounced stah-nee-tsah; Ukrainian: станиця, stanytsia) is a village inside a Cossack host (voisko) (казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Army"). Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.
Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire."
Obviously, the translators went with "host" but unlike Paul, I see medical or biological connotations (or even hospitality) in the word rather than religious (despite a rigid Catholic upbringing); e.g., "host cell" or "the host of a show."
I'm probably overstepping my bounds here on things I don't have all the facts on, so I will shut up now.:D
Phillip
As for the Cossack culture, I remember that some groups were given specific titles via awards or honors by the Romanov's - particularly Ekaterina (if I am remembering what I saw in the Hermitage on one of my walk-throughs correctly).
When I think of Cossacks, I often picture Yuliy "Yul" Borisovich Brynner who played the part of a Cossack in one of his films - not The Brothers Karamazov or Westworld (my personal favorite), but one of the Southern or Eastern Russian roles he had. I think he played a Cossack Partisan in a WWII film. Anyway, he's how I picture Cossacks, which is like saying John Wayne is my archetypal cowboy - which Brynner did very well also in The Magnificent Seven. What all this has to do with the badge and your very informative piece of personal insight on Cossacks, I don't know anymore. Perhaps my cold medicine is getting the better of me.:weird
Regardless, thank you for the information as always. We are lucky to have you as a resource.:thumbsup
And speaking of resources:
Alexei, what wrong with "representatives of the Cossack troops"? I don't know the context of what you are asking about, so please excuse my interruption.:)
At the same time, there is a severely undocumented statement regarding "stanitsas" on the one place I never let my students go - Wikipedia: "Stanitsa (Russian: стани́ца, pronounced stah-nee-tsah; Ukrainian: станиця, stanytsia) is a village inside a Cossack host (voisko) (казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Army"). Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.
Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire."
Obviously, the translators went with "host" but unlike Paul, I see medical or biological connotations (or even hospitality) in the word rather than religious (despite a rigid Catholic upbringing); e.g., "host cell" or "the host of a show."
I'm probably overstepping my bounds here on things I don't have all the facts on, so I will shut up now.:D
Phillip
Phillip
