Borzoi History

In Memory Of Jo Heller, Vorenoff Borzoi Kennel. Jo Heller died on April 27, 2007 at 6:15. It is not easy to quantify her actions in favor of our breed. She was an extraordinary person and I was fortunate to be a part of her family. I can say that she was a woman of character, like any talented person. But I also knew her as a woman with a pleasant physique, a smiling face, and a big heart for everything that touched the Borzoi. Her disappearance is a great loss to the world of Borzoi. She had principles and never left them. She had many beautiful dogs and each of them was like a child to her [...]

Link to Majenkir kennels Presentation of Karen Staudt Cartebona Interview in the Showsight Magazine (by Allan Reznik on December 3, 2018) 1. Where did you grow up? I was born in New York and spent my early childhood in a Brooklyn apartment where there were no pets allowed. I kept tropical fish and caged birds and sneaked home various animal misfits: a mouse knocked unconscious by the trash man (I was allowed to keep him), and scruffy alley cats (which I could not keep). When my family bought a house with a fenced-in yard in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, my collecting of dogs and animals [...]

Karen van Antwerp has kindly supplied us with text and photos from The 85 Year Jubilee of the Nederlandse Barsoi Club. On January 19, 2020, the Nederlandse Barsoi Club began the celebration of their 85th Anniversary at Castle Vorden during the annual New Year reception and dog walk. Castle Vorden and its owners welcomed club members into the castle and their Borzoi to celebrate this special event. Several members dressed up in historic costumes to honor the aristocratic themed festivities. We had the opportunity to have coffee and a snack with our three Borzoi in the magnificent Red reception [...]

The dog in the pictures, Argos (Sokoloff) born I Russia in 1886, sold to America and renamed Argoss. He comes from a litter that has influenced the borzoi breed ever since. He looks like a very strongly built dog, slightly longer than high. Broad in front but even broader in hindquarters. Are the proportions of this dog desirable? The litter, where he was one of a number of known descendants is to day behind all living borzoi. The breeders in Russia, including Perchino and those in Europe and America must all have thought so. We can assume that it was the breed characteristics that was [...]