Russian wolfhound

Other country-of-origin names include two immense Russian wolfhounds donated to the zoo in September of 1892 by Byron C. Daniels, U.S. consul at Hull, England.

Now, most people might call me a mongrel, but I have some pretty fancy bloodlines running through these veins and Russian wolfhound happens to be one of them.

His wife, Kathleen, enjoyed breeding borzoi, a type of Russian wolfhound, and, between the two of them, they restored the estate to something like its former glory.

She bounced up, drew a loud cheer and finished the run alongside the borzoi, also called a Russian wolfhound.

He usually walked the streets of New York with a white Russian wolfhound.