Boris Palachnik, sometimes called Borya, was a Russian Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea during the late 1720s. Despite his short stature, he was feared and respected by all of his fellow pirates. Most notably in command of the sloop Koldunya, he was one of the most successful pirates of his time. However, his greed was so big that he and his men started slaughtering captured crews of merchant ships so they could keep their vessels and sell them, openly violating the Pirate Code. Thus organizing a fleet of rogue pirates, Borya became the scourge of the Seven Seas, until his luck run out when he knowingly targeted and sank the Cobra, a pirate ship of Hector Barbossa. A few months later, at Shipwreck Cove, Barbossa and the young pirate Jack Sparrow exposed Borya's actions to the Brethren Court,