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The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms rather than actual names. Borzoi is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means 'fast'. Borzaya sobaka ('fast dog') is the basic term for sighthounds used by Russians, though sobaka is usually dropped.
Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan (Russian: Волкодав из рода Серых Псов, romanized: Volkodav iz roda Serykh Psov) is a 2006 Russian slavic fantasy film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, based on the novel of the same name by Maria Semenova.
Two orphanage children find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades. Volkov became a criminal, and Zhuravleva became a police officer.
The Chortai, sometimes spelt Chortaj, is a breed of sighthound from Ukraine.. The Chortai is said to resemble a cross between a Greyhound and a short haired Borzoi, being a quite heavily built running hound but nevertheless displaying typical sighthound features.
Most of her books are based on Slavic mythology, as well as on Russian and Norse pagan traditions. She's best known for Wolfhound (Volkodav in Russian) fantasy series, that was adapted into 2007 film Wolfhound of The Grey Hound Clan and the 2006 video game Requital. Semyonova is also known for her numerous translations of western fantasy books ...
Another prominent author of Slavic fantasy is Maria Semyonova, who wrote the Wolfhound series. [6] Some Russian-speaking writers draw on Norse mythology (classified by Dr. Elena Safron as Western fantasy [5]) – Elizaveta Dvoretskaya's series Ship in the Fjord, [6] for instance – and some English-speaking writers use Old Russian pagan ...
The Bankhar dog (Buryat: хотошо, Mongolian: банхар, Russian: Бурят-монгольский волкодав), is a landrace livestock guarding dog. Originally bred by the Buryat people , their success contributed to their spread across Buryatia and Mongolia and into adjacent regions before they were nearly annihilated in the mid ...
Young Wolfhound (Russian: Молодой Волкодав, romanized: Molodoy Volkodav) is a 2006–2007 Russian adventure fantasy TV series, a prequel to the 2006 film Wolfhound. Series was loosely based on the novels by Maria Semyonova about Wolfhound's young life.