Picture No | 10142537 |
Date | circa 1900 |
Description | Vassilka - Queen Alexandra's Borzoi at Sandringham |
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Vassilka, favourite Russian Borzoi of Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, poses with her keeper at the kennels at Sandringham, Norfolk. The dog was a gift from her sister the Tsarina Marie Feodorovna (formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark). Contemporary accounts of the kennels by Lady Dorothy Nevill and Lord Knutsford describe how Queen Alexandra fed the dogs with bread from a flat basket and knew each of the dogsÆ names and characters well.
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Source | Unnamed photographer |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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