The story of the greyhounds

Reprint from the publication. Moscow, 1891. Baron Grigory Dmitrievich Rosen (1846-1897) was a hunter and dog breeder. He did not get out of the psariy yard, it happened, slept in an embrace with dogs in hiking wagons. Leaving a cozy estate in the Arzamas district of the Nizhny Novgorod province, for months he traveled along Russian weights in order to look at some famous borzo Kobel defeating or Kostroma squeezing a scream. The notes of Baron Grigory Dmitrievich Rosen began to appear first in the journal "Nature and Hunt", and in 1888 a large essay “Dog Hunt” was released there. The provenness to the real publication was the essay of the history of the Dog Borza, which was published in the "Russian hunter". "History of Borzy Dogs" - was the first specialized publication in Russia about the greyhounds. In the book, he analyzes the influence of climate, terrain and food on the formation of greyhounds. The method that the hunt was conducted was influenced not only by external forms, but also on the character, the moral aspects of dogs. Features of the relief of the area where hunting is conducted, eventually change the ability to see in animals. The most ancient mention of the greyhounds is attributed to images found in ancient India, and notes the mention of the greyhounds in the Iliad and Odisai, separately highlighting the essay on the hunting of Xenophon. There are also descriptions of Russian greyhounds in the book. Overview of the greyhounds of the end of the XIX century. It ends in comparing the position of the greyhound abroad and in Russia. Circulation 30 copies. Made using Print-on-Demand technology