Cossack choirs and other Russian folk music

After the disaster involving the Alexandroff chorus, the two Cossack choral groups I would recommend listening to would be the Kuban state choir and the Pyatnitsky choir.

You can search youtube for all Cossack choir music by pasting -- казачий хор -- into the search box.

I know, you could paste "cossack choir" into a search as easily, but I have the feeling that I'm turning up more interesting stuff searching in Russian...

The Kuban choir would be кубанский хор and

the Pyatnitsky group, пятницкий хор

A few items I'd recommend:

Kuban Jubilee Concert:

Pyatnitsky choir "Ой, со вечора, с полуночи",

There are two common Russian songs about the Cossack chieftain Stenka Raizin. One is a drinking song about Raizin drowning the Persian girl in the Volga river which isn't notably better or worse than most drinking songs:

The other is a very pretty sort of a thing about a dream or premonition which the chieftain had.

Pelagea's version:

Multitudinous other versions, search youtube on -- ой да не вечер --

The saber dance song:

There is a folk group I listen to which isn't exactly Cossack music but sounds like a mixture of Cossack and Irish music, i.e. Otava Yo / Отава ё:

Inpromptu concert/live stream:

Another sort of a thing which I enjoy listening to would be Russian or Ukrainian psalter music. Russians call that goosli / гусли, which is one of those words which exists only in plural form. That was the classical instrument of minstrels in past ages and the instrument which Sadko plays in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, search on -- гусли:

The Ukrainian version is called бандура / bandura

There's more to Russian folk music than that of course, but that might do for starters.