This is for anyone who wants to research the breed
Here we collect images and texts that contribute to creating a historical archive about the breed. Many thanks to all of you who contributed to the narrowed material, writings and pictures.
This tab on the history of the breed Is structured like a blog with historical material about the breed. Text and images is structured by country, event such as the era of polar research, the time in Siberia, etc. Under the different subject lines, you will find a lot of larger image archives to browse.
If you have material that should be shared on this page, send it by e-mail to us and we will post it. Both as separate pictures and in a document (word + pdf) describing which dogs they, which year, country and the source
Responsible for cataloging and organizing the collected historical material: Camilla Nyström.
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120 years ago, the first expedition that wintered in Antarctica arrived on Stewart Island from Antarctica, and the Finnmark Finns Per Savio and Ole Must, who were part of the crew, had built e.g. the first sauna to Antarctica. The men were on their way to take care of Samoyed and Eskimo dogs. The sled dogs had been shipped from...
England has a very well-documented history of dogs and there is much preserved both through studbooks, newspapers and magazines, which is very interesting and exciting. England is one of the countries where rhe breedtype translation started relatively early. After 1950, dogs with a new and foreign appearance to the breed dominated the show ring....
Maria Feodorovna (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна, romanized: Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel....
Above: This dogs are all imports from siberia and are behind todays Samoyeddog.
A large number of expeditions were carried out to Siberia and the Arctic regions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these expeditions made extensive use of Samoyed and Ostyak dogs. Greenlandic dogs were then also used on many expeditions (especially to the South Pole) and therefore you have to be clear about which expeditions had Samoyed...
Nordenskiöld was an early Swedish explorer who visited Siberia and described the Samoyed and Ostjak peoples. He mentions the dogs in certain places and also brought some specimens of them home to Stockholm. Below is a link to his descriptions in digital edition.
What was common among 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲, and 𝐂𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢 All four great explorers obtained their dogs from a Norwegian-Russian businessman named Trontheim Ivanov. We owe to him the fact that the Samoyed dog breed came to light in the Western world to be used as a sled dog during these expeditions. For the expeditions, the...
Above: F. Nansen is sitting in the center, and on the left you can see a small white dog. Year 1913.
For the 1907 Nimrod Expedition, Shackleton acquired from a breeder on Stewart Island, New Zealand 9 descendants from the Southern Cross Expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink. The Southern Cross Expedition 1898 - 1900 was the first to over winter in Antarctica and Samoyeds made up the majority of the 80 to 100 dogs that accompanied the expedition.
