Show all images on one page	#007706 Title: Russian Borzoi Hunt/The first pursuit Artist: Isaev Igor Size: 12.5x6x11 Size (inches): 5x2.25x4.25 Price : $2490 SOLD!

This interesting composition with Russian hunting with Borzoi Dogs was painted by Top Fedoskino Master Igor Isaev.
The Russian concept of hunting trials was instituted during the era of the Tsars. 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. For the aristocracy these trials were a well-organized ceremony, sometimes going on for days, with the borzoi accompanied by mounted hunters and Foxhounds on the Russian steppe. Hares and other small game were by far the most numerous kills, but the hunters especially loved to test their dogs on wolf. If a wolf was sighted, the hunter would release a team of two or three borzoi. The dogs would pursue the wolf, attack its neck from both sides, and hold it until the hunter arrived. The classic kill was by the human hunter with a knife. Wolf trials are still a regular part of the hunting diploma for all Russian sightdog breeds of the relevant type, either singly or in pairs or trios, in their native country.
In the 1917 Revolution, large numbers of native Psovoi/Borzoi were destroyed by the revolutionaries. The Tsars had turned them into a symbol of affluence and tyranny, and they were not welcomed into the new world of the Soviet Union. Some noblemen took it upon themselves to shoot their own dogs rather than allow them to fall into the hands of militants. However, the Psovoi survived along with the other borzaya variants in the Russian countryside.
This intersting box has original (one-of-a-kind) shape reminds a purce.The style of Isaev's painting is easy to distinguish from other Fedoskino painters by his warm yellow/grey pallette and manner of painting. The details on a box are amazing and composition is alive in it's movement!
Inside the box we can see an animal that the dogs were pursuiting painted in gold paint. On the back side from the painting there is abstarcting gold lines rounding in the center of the box.
The composition is framed with with two golden lines.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. The exterior of the piece is imitates the color of a gray marble. Red lacquer completes the interior of the work. The hinge is fastened to the bottom of the composition. The box rests on platform that consists of the border lines of the sides of the box .
The box is signed, titled ("The first race/pursuit"), dated (2012) by the artist at the bottom of the composition in brown paints. Also,abreviation (av.) in front of his name indicates that this is his original composition!