Potemkin's Jewish Cossacks: The story of the Israelovsky Regiment -feature
One of the most curious episodes of Jews bearing arms in a military capacity occurred 250 years ago in the Russian Empire under the Romanovs. It was Potemkin's Israelovsky Regiment.
RUSSIAN FIELD MARSHAL Grigory Potemkin (1739-1791), portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, 19th century. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByALEX WINSTONUpdated: