The reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan is a famous piece of correspondence, which may or may not have happened.
First, the Ottoman letter to the troublesome Cossacks:
To which the Zaporozhian Cossacks answered:
Painting by Ilya Repin (1891)
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