A detailed round red wooden shield with a golden cross, a central eye, stars, wheat, and Cyrillic text.

This magnificent round shield is crafted from layered wood and reinforced with bands of steel, measuring about 2.5 feet in diameter. Its face is painted with the traditional Cossack colors - deep crimson background with a golden cross at the center, surrounded by eight-pointed stars and stylized wheat sheaves. Around the shield's edge, Cyrillic inscriptions in Church Slavonic read: "За віру, за волю, за народ" (For Faith, For Freedom, For the People) - the traditional Cossack motto. The shield's most striking feature is the large, painted eye at its center - the "Eye of the Sich" - which seems to follow movement and occasionally blinks. See more