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Henry Berger Jr. Of Mirasol Kennel

Henry Berger, Jr. (American, 1877-1939), Untitled (Self-Portrait with Dog), ca. 1915, This photograph is from the collection of the Portland Art Museum: Henry Berger, Jr., Untitl…

History of the early British Borzoi (Major Sidney P. Borman)

From the New Book of the Dog edited by J. Sidney Turner, Chairman of the Committee of the Kennel Club. Published in 1907. The Borzoi section was written by Major S.P. Borman of the Ramsden kennels.     Although known in this country as the B…

HOLLAND BORZOI SHOWS IN PHOTOS (1970-1971)

Amsterdam Winner Show, Holland: 21st – 22nd November 1970. Judge Mevr. K. H. Nause (Germany), 34 Entries 1 2[/c…

Hound Association Critique

Hound on the church door

Urnes Church Door ​​The Urnes Church Official description of the wood carvings on the very old church door! Wood carvings from a very old church door in Norway. The oldest church…

Hunting with borzoi in America

  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 generati…

IBC conference in Macon in France 1989

At the 3rd IBC conference in USA in 1986 it was decided that the 1989 conference should be held in France. The French Borzoi Club accepted and invited the worlds Borzoi enthusiasts to Macon. A large number of Borzoi people attended this 4th conference…

Ilyin hunt

Psovaja i ruzheinaja okhota (Magazine) 1899 No. 7 Mr. Ilyin’s Hunt Serdetschny Ilyin (1906)

Imperial Hunting Society Exhibition December 30, 1881, in the Moscow

Since 1874, the Imperial Hunting Society had been organizing dog and hunting-horse exhibitions in Moscow. The VIII exhibition opened on December 30, 1881, in the Moscow City Manege. The exhibition catalog listed 322 dogs and 38 horses. There were 50 b…

In Defense of the Russian Borzoi.

In Defense of the Russian Borzoi, 1928 Nikolai Nikolaevich Tchelicheff Excerpt from the Permanent Special Commission for promoting development of pure bred dogs. In the report the Commission proposed, in view of the insignificance, it is limited solel…

In memory of Eugenia Feodorovna Dezor

Eugenia Feodorovna Dezor Elena Nikolaevna Makkonen who personally knew Eugenia Feodorovna Dezor wrote this in memory of her friend. She has agreed to have it published in the Borzoi Encyclopedia. Eugenia was born on August 29 in 1903. She was the elde…

Inna Estrina – colour in Borzoi

Russian expert and breeder Inna Estrina Probably, not in any other breed of dogs, exist so many colors and shades of coat, as in the russian psovy borzoi. And how many mistakes were made in this regard? Sometimes this problem appears because people di…