Halftone illustration of a team of Russian Cossacks, circa 1900. The mounted cossack at left holds a small knotted whip tipped with a lump of lead, called a knout, used for punishing criminals. From an original image in How Other People Live by H. Clive Barnard, 1918.

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Photo credit: © Peter Righteous / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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