You will not, you son of a bitch, make subjects of Christian sons we've no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck your mother. What the devil kind of knight are you, that can't slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil excretes, and your army eats. O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes, parodying the Sultan's titles:
Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:Īs the Sultan son of Muhammad brother of the sun and moon grandson and viceroy of God ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt emperor of emperors sovereign of sovereigns extraordinary knight, never defeated steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ trustee chosen by God Himself the hope and comfort of Muslims confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. Repin also admired them: "All that Gogol wrote about them is true! A holy people! No one in the world held so deeply freedom, equality, and fraternity." During Repin's time, the Cossacks enjoyed great popular sympathy. The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in an uncharacteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. However, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Turkish rule. The Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from 'beyond the rapids', Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. Repin became curious about the story and in 1880 started the first of his studies. He gave it to historian Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855-1940), who by chance read it to his guests, among whom was the painter Ilya Repin.
Novitsky, found a copy made in the 18th century. The original reply has not survived however, in the 1870s an amateur ethnographer from Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipropetrovsk), Ya. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending a reply to an ultimatum of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV.
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