Melanie Richards posted the Russian text a while back, and I’ve completed the translation of that chapter and my wife Catherine Shilov finished the editing, Dmitri Shilov! The content or part of the content in the article has been questioned but it can’t be denied that Nikolai Chelichtsev had seen some of the dogs he […]
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Peter Gubin (1843-1906) was an avid hunter and breeder of hunting dogs and sighthound breeds and devoted his free time to hunting with hounds. Over the years, he painstakingly collected materials for his book, where he described in detail observations, his own personal experience and knowledge from the oldest and most authoritative hunters. “Full
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A quick look at one famous woman in Borzoi from a 100 years ago: Nina Alexandrovna Korff-Sumarokova. Baroness Korff was born in 1877, graduated, and spoke four languages. Living on the family estate (Stary Yuriev, Tambov province), she was a passionate lover of borzois and a great horsewoman; together with neighbours, G.E. Delvig, and A.P. Liharev, she took
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Notes regarding Borzoi in Russia in the period 1940 to 1950! In 1945, just as the second WW had ended, a Soviet soldier, Constantin Esmont made detailed records of the various types of borzoi he found in Cossack villages in the south of Russia. His job was to visit horse farms and to select horses
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Wolfhunting in Russia The enormous extent and diversified conditions of the various localities of this empire would naturally suggest a variety
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Peter Feodrovich Durassov (1835 – 1894), was a famous borzoi breeder in Russia. He was the son of Senator F. Durassov, in 1884 Equerry (Chief of stables) at the highest court, a wealthy nobleman – he owned 38 000 ha of land in six governments, factories and two houses in the Royal Village, Tsarskoje Selo.
Le grand-duc Nicolas Nicolaïevitch Romanoff est né à Saint Pétersbourg le 6 novembre 1856. Membre de la famille impériale, il est le fils du grand-duc Nicolas Nicolaïevitch (né en 1831), et le neveu d’Alexandre II (le tsar libérateur qui abolit le servage en 1861). Par le jeu des parentés il est aussi un grand-oncle
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