Cossacks' whip to kill Chechen captive Tsar. What nationality do Cossacks belong to?

Cossack (a nomadic community living in the grasslands of Eastern Europe)? A group of nomadic communities living in the grasslands of Eastern Europe (Ukraine, southern Russia) are local groups with unique history and culture in Russia and Ukraine. Known for its bravery and superb riding skills in history, it was the main force supporting the eastward and southward expansion of the Russian empire in the17th century. Now it is mainly distributed in the Don River, Terek River and Kuban River basins. Belongs to European style. The southern dialect that uses Russian belongs to the Slavic language family of Indo-European language family. In the 65438+5th century, Cossack refers to the semi-independent Tatars formed on the Dnieper River, and also refers to the nomadic people who fled from Poland, Lithuania and Moscow to the Dnieper River and the Don River. They set up autonomous village societies. /kloc-in the 6th century, there were six Cossack groups: Zaboronian (mainly in the west of Dnieper River), Don River Group, Greben Group (in the Caucasus), Yeke Group (Yaik, in the middle reaches of Ura River), Wowa Group and Dnieper River Group.