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| Keywords: Chesmensky on Bars I.jpg Alexey Orlov-Chesmensky Riding His Stallion Bars I There is a problem here with both the image and the title Bars is wrong Although it's a reasonable English cognate for the horse's name in Russian Bars actually means leopard a much better name for a swift horse I suspect this translation / transliteration mistake has gone unchallenged for decades The image is wrong because the Russian title indicates a mounted rider I have literary confirmation of both points in Gilyarovsky's Moscow and Muscovites in the chapter Sukharevka Еще два по т ета маслом с г афа О лова-Чесменского а одном по т ете г аф изоб ажен на своем Ба се ве хом а на д угом -- в санях зап яженных Сви епым О лов-Чесменский на своем же ебце Ба се I Ба с I знаменитый о ловский ысак Horse Breeding Museum in Moscow s 1890 Nikolai Sverchkov 1817-1898 PD-Art PD-Art Nikolai Sverchkov Horse sleighs in art Orlov Trotter Military people of the Russian Empire Shaft bow harnesses in art Alexey Orlov-Chesmensky in portraits | ||||
