If a wolf was sighted, the hunter would release a team of two or three Borzois. Hares and other small game were by far the most numerous kills, but the hunters especially loved to test their dogs on wolf. For the aristocracy these trials were a well-organized ceremony, sometimes going on for days, with the Borzois accompanied by mounted hunters and Foxhounds on the Russian steppe. As well as providing exciting sport, the tests were used for selecting Borzoi breeding stock only the quickest and most intelligent hunting dogs went on to produce progeny.
The Russian concept of hunting trials was instituted during the era of the Tsars.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich of Russia bred countless Psovoi at Perchino, his private estate.
For centuries, Psovoi could not be purchased but only given as gifts from the Tsar. The Psovoi was popular with the Tsars before the 1917 revolution. Īll of these foundation types-Tazi, Hortaya, Stepnaya, Krimskaya, and Hort-already possessed the instincts and agility necessary for hunting and bringing down wolves. It was crossed as well with the Russian Laika specifically and singularly to add resistance against Northern cold and a longer and thicker coat than the Southern sighthounds were equipped with. There were also imports of Western sighthound breeds to add to the height and weight. The more modern Psovaya Borzaya was founded on Stepnaya, Hortaya and the Ukrainian-Polish version of the old Hort. The Borzoi originated in 17th century Russia by crossing Arabian sighthounds with a thick-coated breed. The famous actress, Sarah Bernhardt, depicted with Borzoi, by Georges Clairin, French painter However, the Borzoi Club of America and the Borzoi Club UK both prefer Borzoi as the form for both singular and plural forms. The most commonly used plural form is the regular formation Borzois, which is the only plural cited in most dictionaries. 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, not actual names. The Borzoi ( borzaya, meaning 'sighthound' in Russian), also called the Russian Hunting Sighthound ( Russian: ру́сская псовая борзая, romanized: russkaya psovaya borzaya 'Russian long-haired sighthound') and known as the Russian Wolfhound until 1936, is a sighthound hunting breed of domestic dog. Medium length, silky and wavy, short length
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