In the Russian Empire, horse racing and horse breeding were very popular. What role did the people of Kharkiv play in all of this?

The answer to this question can be found in the 1905 book *Illustrated Album of Trotting and Horse Racing and a List of Russian Horse Breeding Farms*.

This beautifully illustrated volume contains unique and fascinating information about horse breeding farms throughout the Russian Empire. In this same book, we also encounter an old acquaintance of ours, one of the authors of the book *Ancient Estates of the Kharkiv Governorate* and the owner of Lyutivka, Count Nikolai Vladimirovich Kleinmichel…

Count N. V. Kleinmichel’s stud farm is located in the Kharkiv Governorate, on the Lyutovka estate in the Bogodukhovsky District. Address: Lyutivka, Zolochiv, Kharkiv Governorate. The stud farm, founded in 1899, breeds riding horses.

Count Georgy Ivanovich Ribopier’s Thoroughbred Stud Farm.

The village of Svyatye Gory is located in the Kharkiv Governorate, Izyum County.

Petr Vasilyevich Markov, a trotter breeder from Kharkiv.

V. A. Nelidov’s Thoroughbred Stud is located on the grounds of Count G. I. Ribopier’s Thoroughbred Stud, in the Izyum District of the Kharkiv Governorate, on the “Holy Mountains” estate.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Rosalion-Soshal’sky’s half-blood horse farm and Nikolai Nikolayevich Rosalion-Soshal’sky’s thoroughbred horse farm.

The plant is located in the Kharkiv Governorate, in the Kupyansk District, 0.5 versts from the “Manachinovka” station on the Sevastopol Railway. It was founded in 1895.