A Bronze Group of a Cossack Hunter with Two Borzoi

A Bronze Group of a Cossack Hunter with Two Borzoi
Cast by C.F. Woerffel after the model by Vasilii Grachev, 1877
On a naturalistic oval base, modelled as a hunter on horseback smoking a pipe, signed on base in Cyrillic 'LBP. GRACHEV' and with foundry mark 'FABR. C.F. WOERFFEL ST. PETERSBOURG' with Finance Ministry Stamp dated 1877
16¼ in. (42 cm. ) high