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The first golden retriever in Russia (“The Glasnost golden”)

June 23, 2011 by SWestfall3

Her name was Princess Christina of Kansas (b. 1989), and she was an obvious working type dog from the United States. (Kansas, in case you didn’t know, doesn’t actually have royalty– except for queens at country fairs.)

(Source for image)

Now, you can tell what lines of golden were eventually prominent in Russia following Christina’s import.

They went for the European and UK show lines, which you can tell by the color of these puppies, which were her grandchildren. They likely went for these lines because they would fit in more nicely with the FCI system, but the Russians themselves have always valued good hunting dogs. So it’s possible that there might be a future for other working-type dogs in Russia.

Christina died in 2001, which just shows you how recent the history of this breed in Russia actually is.

I guess she’s the first golden retriever that ever could accurately be called a “Russian retriever.”

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Her pedigree shows that she was just a regular old working-type golden, but one of her great grandmothers was a Topbrass dog.

Her COI over 3 generations was 0.00%.

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Posted in golden retriever, golden retriever history | Tagged golden retriever, golden retriever history, Princess Christina of Kansas, Russian retriever | 9 Comments

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  1. on June 24, 2011 at 9:44 am HTTrainer

    If you go back far enough you will find many unknowns, even behind Topbrass Gold Leaf O’Autumn, but you will find:

    Am. Dual CH. Stilrovin Rip’s Pride OS (7/7/1941-9/10/1946).

    FWIW, I think there are too many unknowns to place any value on the COI.


    • on June 24, 2011 at 12:05 pm retrieverman

      Particularly with just three generation.

      Stilrovin Rip’s Pride died of some kind of cancer, if my memory serves.


    • on June 24, 2011 at 12:14 pm retrieverman

      It may have been Nitro Express.

      They had the same mother:

      http://www.k9data.com/offspring.asp?ID=698


    • on June 25, 2011 at 12:04 pm M.R.S.

      HTTrainer is right…three generations is far too few ancestors to make a valid COI. What if all the 4th generation were the same dogs repeated? That would alter the numbers significantly! K9data generally computes 10 and 12 generations when possible.


      • on June 25, 2011 at 12:10 pm retrieverman

        This one calculates only three generations for some reason.


        • on June 25, 2011 at 12:16 pm M.R.S.

          …because only three generations is complete. Can’t properly compute using any generations with “unknowns”.


  2. on June 25, 2011 at 10:59 am Suhail

    This is strange that Goldens are so recent an introduction in Russia. Dogs have always been very popular in Russia (and former Soviet Union). I distinctly recall subscribing to Soviet digest called ‘Sputnik’ in late 70s. From time to time, the digest used to cover dog shows all over the Soviet Union. I was in my preeteens and early teens then, but used to love the digest because of easy English and lots and lots of pictures. Some dog breeds that I fell in love with – Borzoi, South Russian; Caucasian and Central Asian Ovcharkas, etc.


    • on June 25, 2011 at 12:08 pm retrieverman

      It is really strange.

      There may have not been imports from NATO countries during the Cold War– at least until Detante. But coutnries like Finland and Sweden were neutrals and had this breed for a very long time. These countries were not in NATO and had better relations with the USSR.

      I don’t know why Swedish and Finnish dogs didn’t pop up in the Soviet Union.

      Canada under Trudeau was more open to the Soviet Union, too.


      • on June 25, 2011 at 7:06 pm Dave

        Perhaps it got to do with class stratification. It wasn’t until Gorbachev, the Soviet economy was being restructured prior to the Union’s dissolution.



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