Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Tee: Pick your reply.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Tee: Pick your reply.
Pick your reply. Five hooks, one painting: Ask me what they wrote to the Sultan. Reply all. Dear Sultan, no. Written by committee. Too rude to print.
Legend says the Ottoman sultan ordered these Cossacks to submit. Their reply called him a Babylonian cook and a Macedonian wheelwright, and those are the polite parts. Historians doubt the Cossacks ever wrote it. Repin painted the laughter.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin, 1880 to 1891. State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.
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