We are a husband and wife team who enjoy having Russian blues in our lives immensely. Showing our cats and meeting up with our breeder friends at shows and sometimes having kittens share our lives, is a bonus and something we enjoy very much. We are passionate about the breed and therefore when we do have kittens we aim to breed healthy, happy kittens to promote quality in the breed.
How did we become interested? It was after we became a port of call for a stray cat in 1995. Enchanted by this brief encounter with our feline visitor, we did our research and realised she was a Russian. Shortly after that, we got our first cat Annalova Sereshka (Smirnoff) from our friends Anne and Stuart Anderson in North Yorkshire and another from a breeder in Oxford and we have been hooked ever since.
Firstly we became interested in showing cats and after we had built up our knowledge and experience, we got our GCCF registered prefix KORESHKA in 1996. We then embarked on having our first kittens, again we had the help of Anne as she allowed us to use her stud cats to get our line going. All the kittens we breed have the first name of Koreshka in their pedigree name. It's abit like a surname but comes first and Identifies who has bred the kittens.
After a break due to illness, we are back showing and breeding. Although we do not have our original breeding lines, both Nicolai and Eli have links back to relatives of our original cat. It is also nice that they to have a nice mix of new lines in their pedigrees. We are especially proud to have our Troika girl Eli and we are honoured to be owned by a girl from this multi award winning line. The mix of Eli and Nici's breeding lines has worked together well, producing some very nice kittens, little Roksi being a good example. We look forward to seeing the next generation from her hopefully later in the year.
We aim to let our girls have one litter of kittens a year, so that the rest of the time they will enjoy being pets and being spoilt rotten as much loved family members. That said the girls will let us know when they need to have kittens.
We are members of several cat clubs, the most important ones to us being the RBBA ( Russian Blue Breeders Association) and RACCS ( Russian & Abyssinian cat club of Scotland)
We love to show our cats at shows within a reasonable travelling distance - although all our show cats travel very well indeed. Nicolai is an Imperial Grand Champion, Eli a Grand Champion and Roksi a Champion we look forward them to progressing further, Eli is trying to catch Nicolai up in titles and Roksi will now have a break to hopefully have some kittens.
You can learn more about our cats and meet them on the about our Queens and stud pages.
Like most Russian Breeders we know, we are obsessed with our cats as they are such great characters and company - once you have had a Russian Blue in your life you would never be without one.