Editing Cossacks (section)

===Family life===
[[File:Novosibirsk-Karimov.jpg|thumb|Siberian Cossack family in [[Novosibirsk]]]]

Historically, when Cossack men fought in permanent wars far from home, women took over the role of family leaders. Women were also called upon to physically defend their villages and towns from enemy attacks. In some cases, they raided and disarmed neighboring villages composed of other ethnic groups. [[Leo Tolstoy]] described such Cossack female chauvinism in his novel, [[The Cossacks (novel)|''The Cossacks'']]. Relations between the sexes within the ''stanitsas'' were relatively egalitarian. The American historian Thomas Barrett wrote "The history of Cossack women complicates general notions of patriarchy within Russian society".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=Thomas |title=At the Edge of Empire: The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860 |date=1999 |publisher=Avalon Publishing |location=New York |isbn=0-8133-3671-6 |page=131}}</ref>

When the Malorossian Cossack regiments were disbanded, those Cossacks who were not promoted to nobility, or did not join other estates, were united into a [[Malorossian Cossacks|civil Cossack estate]]. [[Sergei Korolev]]'s mother was the daughter of a leader of the civil estate of the Zaporozhian Sich.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yablor.ru/blogs/12-yanvarya-1907-goda-rodilsya-sergey-pavlovich-ko/169210 |script-title=ru:12 января 1907 года родился Сергей Павлович Корольов |trans-title=On 12 January 1907 Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born |language=ru |website=Yablor.ru |date=12 January 2010 |access-date=2 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003224458/http://yablor.ru/blogs/12-yanvarya-1907-goda-rodilsya-sergey-pavlovich-ko/169210 |archive-date=3 October 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>