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Cossacks did not like this. The Zaporozhian Cossacks were outraged by the letter of the Turkish Sultan. Print Of The Cossacks Reply To The Sultan Zaporozhtsy C1890 1939 Creator Ilya Repin Ilya Repin Painting Posters Art Prints Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau set in 167. Zaporozhian cossacks letter to sultan . The original reply has not survived. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau set in 1676 and based on the legend of Cossacks sending a reply to an ultimatum of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed IV. Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Whether genuine or not the story of the letters inspired a Ukrainian artist named Ilya Repin who in 1880 painted The Cossacks Write a Letter to the Sultan. The irreverent letter the Cossacks wrote to the Ottoman Sultan in 1676. That letter was in response to a letter from the sultan demanding obedience. The devil shits and your army eats.