Nekrasov Cossacks, Nekrasovite Cossacks, Nekrasovites, Nekrasovtsy () descend from those

Don Cossacks Don Cossacks (, ) or Donians (, ), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don River (Russia), Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (, ), which was either an independent or an autonomous democratic rep ...

who, after the defeat of the

Bulavin Rebellion The Bulavin Rebellion or Astrakhan Revolt (; Восстание Булавина, ''Vosstaniye Bulavina'') was a war which took place in the years 1707 and 1708 between the Don Cossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democratica ...

of 1707–1708, fled to the

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in September 1708, headed by Ignat Nekrasov, hence their name. At that time the

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ruled the Kuban. Later, other fugitives from the Don and runaway Russian serfs joined the Nekrasov Cossacks. The Nekrasovites were

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, and hence persecuted by Orthodox Russian authorities. Initially, the Nekrasovites settled by the right bank of the Bolshaya Laba River, near its

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. Later, the majority, including Nekrasov himself, settled on the Taman Peninsula, in three townlets ('' gorodoks''): Bludilovsky, Golubinsky and Chiryansky (Блудиловский, Голубинский, Чирянский). The Nekrasovites continued to raid the adjacent Russian lands, including the Don area; Russian forces carried out counter-raids. As a consequence, until 1737, several hundreds of thousands of fugitives from Southern Russia fled to the

, with a significant number joining the Nekrasovites. About 1737 the activity of the Nekrasovites petered out: historians assume that Nekrasov died in that year. Soon afterwards the Nekrasovite community began to disintegrate and resettled in the

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. During the Second World War, a number of Nekrasov Cossacks participated in the war on the side of the German military. In 1962 some Nekrasov Cossacks migrated to the U.S.S.R. Compare: They have preserved the Don Cossack language, songs, and their ethnic identity despite their separation from other Cossacks for more than 200 years. There is an ongoing work for preserving the heritage of Nekrasov Cossacks.

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