Possible Clues:

• Russian horsemen
• Members of an elite cavalry corps in tsarist Russia
• To keep small, company dismisses Ukrainians, perhaps
• The —, Tolstoy novella
• Greek island dispenses with old Russian people
• Greek island fires cavalry
• Crimean War group
• Cavalry corps function before plundering cities, ultimately
• Once-autonomous people of southern Russia
• Bags of Russian companies