![]() ![]() ![]() History Borzoi Flock DHSB 325, owned by Max Hartenstein, Berlin, Germany, 1879 Wolf hunting with borzois (1904), Efim A. ![]() Other Russian sighthound breeds are stepnaya borzaya (from the steppe), called stepnoi and krimskaya borzaya (from the Crimea), called krimskoi. In modern Russian, the breed commonly called the Borzoi is officially known as russkaya psovaya borzaya. The name psovaya derived from the word psovina, which means 'wavy, silky coat', just as hortaya (as in hortaya borzaya) means shorthaired. Borzáya sobáka ('fast dog') is the basic term for sighthounds used by Russians, though sobáka is usually dropped. Borzói is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means 'fast'. The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms rather than actual names. It was formerly used for wolf hunting, : 125 and until 1936 was known as the Russian Wolfhound. The Borzoi or Russian Hunting Sighthound is a Russian breed of hunting dog of sighthound type. Medium length, silky and wavy, short length ![]()
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