Zarifa (below) was bred by Count Stroganov from his imported stallion Sherrak, out of the mare Ghazu. Zarifa’s dam Ghazu was a grey mare foaled in the desert c. 1879/1880, sired by a Dahman ‘Amer. Stroganov purchased her on his first expedition to Syria, in 1888, from the Sba’ah. She produced seven foals in Russia, sired by Emir-el-Arab, Sottamm el-Kreysh, Sherrak, and Ashgar (Emir-el-Arab x Anaze). Zarifa herself produced three foals by the time the 1903 stud book was compiled, a chestnut colt and filly by Emir-el-Arab in 1900 and 1901, and a grey filly by Sottamm el-Kreysh in 1902. Photo from the History of Russia in Photographs.
Samura (below) was the 1895 daughter of the desertbred Kuhaylat al-Jallala mare Saeeda. Samura’s dam Saeeda was foaled in 1884, bred by the Misrab tribe of the Sba’ah. Imported by Stroganov on his first joint expedition with Prince Shcherbakov in 1888, Saeeda produced eight foals between 1891 and 1902, all but one by desertbred stallions; her eighth foal was sired by Abeyan. Samura’s sire was the Krush stallion Emir-el-Arab, bred by Muhammad Ibn Smeyr of the Wuld Ali. At the time the Russian stud book was compiled, Samura had produced two colts, a chestnut colt by Sherrak in 1900, and a chestnut going grey colt by Sottamm el-Kreysh in 1902. Photo from the History of Russia in Photographs.
Manua was bought in Homs by Prince Shcherbatov in 1900, on the second trip that he and Count Stroganov made to Syria, but went to Stroganov’s stud in Russia, rather than Shcherbatov’s. Her sire was a Hadban Enzahi; her dam was from the Sba’ah and sired by a Kuhaylan al-Ajuz horse. From Abeyan sherrak strain. Bay mare imported. Born in 1891 at Hajji Mohammed Khudur, mugkhtar of Babaa Amur village, near Homsa. Sire bay stallion from Khadban Yenzekkhi strain, born at Gomussa’s Bedouin (of Sebaa Anaze) and was sold by the said Bedouin to Fellakh Ibrahim Aga from Ashaee tribe in northern Syria. Dam – bay mare from Abeyan Sherrak strain, purchased by Hajji Mohammed Khudur in 1882 from Bedouin Uakhadj Ibn-Suan from Moadja tribe (of Sebaa Anaze); its sire was from Kekhaylan Adjus strain. Purchased personally by Prince A.G.Scherbatov in Homsa city in 1900 from Hajji Mohammed Khudur and imported to Russia. While in Arabia, she foaled twice. 1900 covered by grey stallion from Dagkhman Umm-Amr strain in Homsa. The stallion was born in Bedouin tribe Gomussa (of Sebaa Anaze) and bought from them by Ibn-Faras, who lived in Homsa. Stud Book of Arabian horses with their pedigrees present…
Latifa was one of the desertbred imports of Count Sergei Stroganov. Foaled in 1883, she was bred by the Shammar, and bought by Stroganov on his trip to Syria in 1895. She produced two fillies and two colts for Stroganov, three of them by the Krush stallion Emir-el-Arab, and one – her daughter Leyla, below – by Sharrak. Leyla was foaled in 1897, the first of Latifa’s foals in Russia. In 1902, she produced a grey colt by Stroganov’s desertbred Saqlawi Jadran, Sottam el-Kreysh. Photos from the History of Russia in Photographs.
Hassan (below) was one of Count Sergei Stroganov’s homebred Arabians, foaled in 1896 out of the imported mare Hamra and by the stallion Sherrak. Hassan’s dam Hamra was foaled in 1884; she was bred by the Sba’ah Anazah and sired by a Kuhaylan Nawwaq. She was brought to Russia in 1888 for Count Stroganov by Sheikh Nasr Ibn Abdallah. Between 1891 and 1902, she produced six fillies and two colts, by the stallions Sherrak, Sottamm el-Kreysh and Arnab. Sherrak and Sottamm el-Kreysh were both desertbred imports; Arnab was a son of two imports, Emir-el-Arab and the mare Anaze. Sottamm el-Kreysh was a Saqlawi Jadran, named for his breeder, the Sheikh of the Bani Sakhr. Emir-el-Arab was a Kuhaylan Krush, bred by Muhammad Ibn Smeyr, Sheikh of the Wuld Ali of the Anazah. Photo of Hassan sourced from the History of Russia in Photographs.
The horses below are half-brothers and -sister, bred by Count Stroganov, out of the mare Anaze. Anaze was an 1877 ‘Ubayyah Sharrakiyah, sired by a Ma’naqi Ibn Sbayli. Her breeder is not given in her Russian stud book entry, only that Stroganov bought her in Deir on the Euphrates in 1888. Abeyan (above) was an 1892 stallion, sired by Tamri, a grey Kuhaylan Tamri stallion bred by Mohammed Ibn Rashid, the Emir of Jabal Shammar, and taken by the Anazah in war in 1889. Tamri was gifted to Stroganov by Sheikh Nasr Ibn Abdallah in 1890. Arnab (above) was an 1893 stallion, sired by Emir-el-Arab, a Kuhaylan Krush from the Wuld Ali. Emir-el-Arab’s sire was an ‘Ubayyan Sharrak from the marbat of Abu Jreyss. Stroganov bought Emir-el-Arab in Damascus, in 1888. Abba (above) was the younger half-sister of Abeyan. Foaled in 1897, her sire was Sherrak, the stallion that had been gifted to Stroganov along with Tamri in 1890. Photos sourced from the History of Russia in Photographs.
Below is one of Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Stroganov’s desertbred stallions, gifted to him by Sheikh Nasr Ibn Abdallah, when he visited Stroganov’s stud farm in Russia. Sherrak, an ‘Ubayyan Sharrak stallion from the marbat of Abu Jreyss. From Abeyan Sherrak strain of Abu Djereys family. Grey stallion, imported; height 2 arshins 2 ¼ inches. Born in Arabia in 1885. Brought from Arabia to Russia for Count C.A. Stroganov in 1890 by Sheikh Nasr Ibn-Abdalla. Stud Book of Arabian horses with their pedigrees present in Russia Photos sourced from the History of Russia in Photographs.