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== History ==

The Borzoi originated in the sixteenth century Russia by crossing [[Saluki]] and European sighthounds with thick-coated Russian breeds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Borzoi {{!}} Breeds A to Z {{!}} The Kennel Club |url=https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/search/breeds-a-to-z/breeds/hound/borzoi/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=www.thekennelclub.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Martin |first=Nellie |title=Borzoi – The Russian Wolfhound. Its History, Breeding, Exhibiting and Care |publisher=Vintage Dog Books |year=2005 |isbn=1-84664-042-3}}</ref>

The Borzoi was popular with the [[Tsar]]s before the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|1917 revolution]]. For centuries, Borzois could not be purchased but only given as gifts from the Tsar. [[Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929)|Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich of Russia]] bred countless Borzoi at Perchino, his private estate.{{r|scott|p=10}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Kalamaras|first=G.|date=2019|title=For All the Russian Wolfhounds—the Borzoi—Slaughtered During the Revolution, 1917|journal=Undocumented|pages=156–157|doi=10.14321/J.CTVJSF4HW.90|isbn=978-1-60917-587-0|s2cid=198844826}}</ref> 

The Russkaya Psovaya Borzaya was definitively accepted by the [[Fédération Cynologique Internationale]] in 1956.{{r|fci}}

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File:1879 Borzoi Flock.jpg|Borzoi owned by Max Hartenstein, Berlin, Germany, 1879
Borzo by a Chair-George Hare.jpg|''Borzoi by a Chair'' ([[St George Hare]], 19th century)
File:Tikhmenev (1904) Wolf hunt with borzois.jpg|''Wolf hunting with borzois'' (1904), Efim A. Tikhmenev
File:Sarah Bernhardt Clairin Henderson.jpg|[[Sarah Bernhardt]], portrait by [[Georges Clairin]]
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