With bitterly cold weather setting in across Britain, the Cossack hat is shaping up as winter 2012's high street fashion hit. The style made glamorous by Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago, and more ...

For Cossacks and the people of the Caucasus, the papakha hat is a point of pride. It is not to be dropped or lost. Sinister as it may seem, this special hat can traditionally only be removed if the ...

HATS can be good for your social life. Dina Wise knows this well, and uses her vast collection of hats to meet new people. “Since not many people wear them on a regular basis, the right hat is a ...

Today’s Cossacks are a far cry from their Czarist-era ancestors, the fierce horsemen with woollen papakha hats, sabres and horsewhips, best known as a buffer force on the borders of the Russian Empire ...