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the northern districts. "^^ The most important hunting estabhshment 



is the Imperial hunt, the kennels of which are at Gatchino, the 



whole staff and hounds shiftino;- once a year in autumn 

 Wolf. , . . . 



for six weeks' huntino- in the different orovernments of 



Central and Southern Russia. The Grand Duke Nicholas owns 



kennels in the government of Toula, where he hunts regularly in 



WOLVES 



September and October. Another well-known hunt is that belonging 

 to Count Sheremeteff, in the Sarattoff country. Foxhounds are 

 employed to draw the coverts, the huntsmen standing outside the 

 wood at different corners with a couple of borzois each. When 

 the wolf breaks covert, the hounds are slipped, and the chase begins, 

 affording now and then a lono- run and o-reat excitement. Fences 

 are unknown in the Russian steppes, but ditches are frequent. 



* See the chapter on "Wolf-hunting in Russia" in Roosevelt and Grinnell'S book, 

 entitled Hunting in Many Lands, 1895. 



