Son of the Volga: The Life, Rebellion, and Immortal Legend of Stepan RazinIn 1667, a wounded Don Cossack warrior descended the Volga River with eight hundred desperate men and a grievance that had been building for a generation. Within three years, Stepan Razin commanded twenty thousand fighters, had destroyed a Persian imperial fleet, conquered a corridor of cities stretching across the Russian interior, and mobilised an estimated two hundred thousand people in th...