Group of Haidamaka.
Haidamakas, or haidamaky ('Гайдамаки in ukrainian haidamaky, from haydamak turkish, seek) were a paramilitary group mostly formed by Cossacks and peasants, who rushed during the eighteenth century on the Ukrainian right bank. They were rivals of the szlachta, the noble Poles. The Balkan equivalents of haidamaka are the hajduk. Occasionally, as in 1734 they also operated on the left bank of the Dnieper. Their massacres of Jesuits, Jews and Poles became sadly famous in Poland, so that the word hajdamactwo was employed to describe the worst of all the Ukrainian people. In Ukraine, however, they are generally rated positively, especially in popular tales or ballads. Even the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Hryhorovyč Ševčenko dedicated haidamaka a poem. Other designers wikitesto
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