Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog are drafting a Manifesto (painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin 1891). Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending an insulting reply to an ultimatum from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV.

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Keywords: 1676, 1891, artist, cossacks, empire, historical, ilya, iv, legend, manifesto, mehmed, ottoman, repin, reply, russia, russian, saporog, sultan, tableau, tsarist, ultimatum, zaporozhian