Identifier: injoyfulrussia00loga (find matches)
Title: In joyful Russia
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Logan, John A. (John Alexander), 1928-
Subjects: Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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king characters in Russian history. Count Alexis OrloffTchestmensky, to whom is due the credit of first improv-ing the native horses of Russia and establishing the firstrecords of pedigree, many of them, written with his ownhand, being still preserved. Count Orloff, born in theearly part of the last century, of a poor but noble family,was exceedingly handsome, and of powerful, athleticphysique. He had great mental gifts, and was most ener-getic, becoming famous as a successful general, and after-ward adding to his honour and reputation as one of thegreatest statesmen of his country and time. He devotedmuch of his leisure to experimenting with horses and dogsfor the purpose of improving the various breeds, and in-troduced many reforms for the benefit of the agriculturaland stock-raising classes. His industry in this line borefruit in the permanent establishment of the breed thatwas ever afterward to bear his name—the Orloff trotter.It is a happy though un-Shakespearian truth that the
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RUSSIAN HORSES. 209 good that men do lives after them, and yet how curiouslymankind fixes upon those qualities hy which it perpetuatesthe memory of its fellows! When Orlolf is spoken of itis not in connection with his great victories, nor his re-markable achievements in statecraft, but with the horseshe loved so well. This is, perhaps, as he would havewished it. His great rugged nature, his modest disposition,his strong mind, and his loyal heart, gave of their best tothem, their welfare and improvement. He loved domesticanimals, he loved his country, and he did more than anyother single man for the domestic animals of his countryat a time when they needed it most. He laid the founda-tion so strongly, and planned the structure so well, thatto-day, nearly a hundred years after the sod closed overhis head, the horses of Eussia are the equals of those ofany country in the world; and the OrlofE trotter standsnot only pre-eminently first, but as the accepted nationalhorse. This being the ca

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