HAIR:

On the head, ears and limbs the hair is silky, short, well fitting to the body. On the body the hair is quite long and wavy; in the scapular region and on the croup it forms finer curls. On ribs and thighs the hair is shorter. The hair, which forms the feathers, the "pants" and the tail of the tail, is longer. The hair on the neck is plentiful and dense.

COLOUR:

Combination of all colors, but never with blue, brown (chocolate) and any gradation of these colors. All colors may be monochrome or pied; Feathers, "pants" and the tail of the tail are much brighter than the base color.

HISTORY:

The Russkaya Psovaya Borzaya has been an integral part of national culture and Russian history for nine centuries. Thus, a French 11th-century chronicle testifies that the daughter of the Grand Duke of Kiev, Anna Iaroslavna, had three Borzois in her wake when she came to France to mate with Henry I. Among its owners and breeders are many famous personalities, including tsars and poets: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Nicholas II, Pushkin, Turgenev. Great importance had the founding of the kennel "Pershinskaya okhota" by famous breeders Grand Duke Nikolai Nicolaevitch and Dimitri Valtsev. Since the end of the 19th century, the Borzoi has been found in Europe's and Europe's largest kennels.