For sale this beautifully detailed brass portrait of a Cossack leader (Ataman) riding his horse. Made around 1930 and either origins from Bulgaria/Ukraine/Russia. The cossacks were widely known for fighting against the communists, especially during world war 2. And unfortunately were send in the hands of Stalin by the Axis powers at the end of the war. 

Historically, they were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people, who, while under the nominal suzerainty of various Eastern European states at the time, were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service. Although numerous linguistic and religious groups came together to form the Cossacks, most of them coalesced and became East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christians. The Cossacks were particularly noted for holding democratic traditions. The rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire endowed Cossacks with certain special privileges in return for the military duty to serve in the irregular troops (mostly cavalry). The various Cossack groups were organized along military lines, with large autonomous groups called hosts. Each host had a territory consisting of affiliated villages called stanitsas.

Measures 35cm/14 inch by 58cm/23 inch and is in a very good state considering it's age. 1,5kg/3.3lbs