Book by Leonid Sabaneev Extremely peculiar breed of dogs, undoubtedly bred by Russian hunters, as one of the most beautiful dogs, had no equal in speed at short distances. All this obliges us to trace in detail the history of hunting with greyhounds in Russia and the origin of dog greyhounds. Unfortunately, information about hunting […]
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Anyone who breeds dogs, not just for exhibition purposes, should familiarize themselves with the dog’s psychology. It is assumed that our breed can be referred to the category of dogs that are born, fighters, by nature angry and that they enjoy hurting their enemy. On the other hand, anyone who has had anything to do
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A little bit about the quality of borzois imported from Russia. In my opinion, imports can be divided into two groups, based on when the borzois were imported. Indeed, when borzois became popular in the west in the 1890s, in Russia some dealers who haven’t not large hunts, or who were not famous breeders
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Of Notts Kennels by Her Grace, Duchess of Newcastle Written by Maja Čosić Proofreading by Sue Vasick Article was published also as printed version in Borzoi Yearbook 2021/2022 (Europeanborzoi) and also in Croatian in Kennel Club magazine “Moj pas”: https://online.fliphtml5.com/hxyvj/cxfx/#p=93 BONUS: Three pedigrees: Ivan Turgeneff, Petrosavodsk and Podar of Notts! 1.photo The Clumber mansion When
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Introduction to the article: In Vladimir, on the wall of The DmitrievSky Cathedral, in ancient times, a dog-bird was painted and an inscription was made. An inscription that will shed light on all our relationships with dogs dear to our hearts. According to Russian popular belief, the dog was given to a man to “bring
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These three hunting borzois are believed to have been owned by C J Elliot from Colorado in America. Information from Andrus Kozlow, Margaret Davis and Sue Vasick! Orloff III bred by C F Hoeckel and owned by C J Elliott was from several generations of Hoeckel dogs going back to some of the Russian
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An Outline of the History of the Borzoi This article was written in 1891 by Baron G. A. Rosen and was published in the journal Russkii Okhotnik. This material was graciously provided by Dr. Jim Sillers, who had the work translated and the resulting paper presented at the 1997 BCOA National Specialty and at the
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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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Chack Bielaja Mr. Müller deals extensively with Chack Bielaja 410 in his essay: “The German Generations” and confuses his description by expressing the German fanciers favor and hatred with this dog. To get to know Chack better, at least from pictures and from descriptions of “contemporaries”. In the German greyhound newspaper No. 2 of 1917,
Very little distinguishes a borzoi from the year 1900 from a borzoi in the year 2000. When we look at other breeds we will almost always see alarming differences. Why is the borzoi so consistent in type over such a long period of time? We owe this consistency and the high level of soundness to
