"Rusich" kennel
a live tradition in Russia

Hunting with Russian wolfhounds bears a storm of emotions - it is a beau-tiful passion. However, it is not a chaos whatsoever. Tactics of hunting of that kind requires a thorough coordination of hunters' actions. "If procedure is broken there will be no pleasure" - used to say in old times true hunters in the period of Russian tsars.

Irina Korshunova, the owner of the "Rusich" kennel, President of the Russian Association of races and tests of wolfhounds", President of old Russian "Borzois Voennoy Ohoti" Club,expert(fields,race,show) one of few in Russia who continues traditions of old Russian hunters. Hunting for her - is her family's tradition: her father, grandfather and great grandfather, Irina's husband are also hunters. Nowadays her sons - Igor, Oleg and small Ivan are already trying their strength in hunting with wolfhounds.

For near 15 years Irina has been professionally breeding Russian wolfhounds, dogs from "RUSICH", beginning with 1998 (when representatives of Russia started to take part in international championships) one can see wolfhounds among prize-winners at championships races of the World and Europe.

The "RUSICH" has been established on the basis of several parent ages. The one of them is the descent from the German - kennel V.BERGRAND (set up in 1935, the owner - Charlotte Zabel), which, in its turn, takes its origin from the well known Pershin hunting. The another some - the descent of the national wolfhound breed.

This excellent working descent is not inferior to Pershin offspring by exterior and rich in really good dashing dogs (such as Ch.Zlata, ,RUSCh Chervona Yazva, Najan).

But even great successes at exhibitions and cinodroms will not induce Irine to leave this or that dog in the nursery for breeding until it passes the main exam - in an open field, in the hunting season. An exam: to catch a dashing hare (that is
very fast and crafty). Dogs, which managed to catch a hare, themselves get a nickname dashing. A dashing dog does not know obstacles, it catches "like on a carpet". A hare before a dashing dog, looks hobbling. If a wolfhound catches such a hare alone it is called a hunter. If a wolfhound is able to overdo the beast (a hare, a fox, a wolf), having guessed its manoeuvre and met it from the front, tradition requires to call such dog a master. There are its own master, hunters. As for dashing, they are alt the same. They do not keep others.

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