Four days in the village of Dog Hunter

Vysheslavtsev Arkady Sergeevich (1820s-1889) A hereditary nobleman, a rich man, a horse rider and a dog hunter, an artist. A hereditary nobleman. He served in the cavalry. In the early 1850s, he resigned and settled on the estate of Issykino Borisoglebsky district of the Tambov (currently Voronezh) province, began to engage in dog hunting and English purebred horses, met and was friends with many landowners of the surrounding provinces, also with dog hunters and bakeries. Obviously, he was a hereditary dog ​​hunter - inherited from his grandfather"s lists of greyhounds, which were conducted from the second half of the 18th century, allowed him to make a detailed description of the dog greyhound (1862), and after 20 years he supplemented him (“Nature and Hunt”, 1880, June) He was a good artist - his drawings of greyhounds, wolves, hares decorated the pages of the magazine Nature and Hunting. The book “Four days in the village of a Dog Hunter” was published in St. Petersburg in 1895. Signed by the initials A-in-. The true name and surname of the author remained a mystery for a long time. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology