Block «Cossack Regalia. Signets of Cossack period»

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The postal issue is intended to remind us of the heroic era in the history of Ukraine - the Cossacks. It is this period that is still associated with valor and the struggle for our native land, and in which our current defenders draw inspiration.

Cossack Kleynodes are symbols and attributes of state or civil authority, individual Sich, regimental, centurion, and other formations or administrative entities. Kleinodes included a flag, mace, bunchuk, seal, pernach, timpani, trumpets, calamar, etc.

The postal sheet includes 6 stamps depicting the seals of the Cossack era: "Seal of the Zaporozhian Lowland Army. 1763"; "Seal of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Mid XVII century."; "Seal of the Kodak palanquin. Mid-eighteenth century"; "Seal of Pryluky Colonel Petro Doroshenko. 1656-1659"; "Seal and ring of Zaporizhzhia foreman. XVII-XVIII centuries"; "Seal of Pryluky regimental clerk Semen Rakovych. 1672-1691".

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