COSSACK MODEL OF VERTICAL STATE Erokhin Igor Urievich, PhD in history. <...> Place of employment: Croydon College, London, U.K. E-mail: eiu21@ya.ru Annotation: The article describes the legal and historical aspects of the formation of the state position of the Cossacks in the Russian empire. <...> The reaction of the nature of the decisions taken and the reform on the part of the Cossack community in the State Duma. <...> The author concludes predetermination of the events and their continuity in the context of the modern period of Russian Cossacks. <...> Автор делает выводы о предопределенности происходивших событий и их преемственности в контексте современного периода развития казачества России! <...>