A Russian Blue can give birth to 3 kittens on average, they have yellow eyes at birth. The silver tips give the coat a shimmering appearance. Only Russian Blues and the French Chartreux have this type of coat, which is described as thick and wonderfully soft to the touch.
The tail, however, has very dull, almost unnoticeable stripes.
The coat is known as a "double coat," with the undercoat being soft, downy, and equal in length to the guard hairs, which are an even blue with silver tips. The blue color will start developing at the age of 4 months. However as dilute genes are recessive ("b") and each parent will have a set of 2 recessive genes ("bb") two Russian Blues will always produce a blue cat. The color is a bluish-gray that is the dilute expression of the black gene. The Russian Blue has a lean elongated body and a short, plush, blue-gray coat. Other Names: Blue Cat, Russian Shorthair, Maltese Cat However, in North America, the Cat Fanciers Association, does not recognize either variation of the Russian Blue. By the late 1970s, the Russian White and Russian Black colors were accepted by cat fanciers in Australia as Russian cats (in different classes). The Siamese traits have now been largely bred out.Īlthough they have been used on a limited basis to create other breeds (such as the Havana Brown) or add type to a breed in creation (the Nebelung), Russian Blues themselves are short-haired, blue-grey cats.ĭuring the early 1970s, a solid white Russian Blue (called the Russian White) was created by the Australian breeder, Mavis Jones, through the crossing of a Russian Blue with a domestic white cat. This was done by combining the bloodlines of both the Scandinavian and English Russian Blues. Although Russian Blues were in America before the war, it was not until the post-war period that American breeders created the modern Russian Blue that is seen in the U.S today. Prior to this, a lack of numbers of Russian Blues led to cross breeding with the Siamese. The breed was developed mainly in Russia and Scandinavia until after World War II. Russian folklore shows the Russian Blue as a good luck charm in fact, the tsars used to place Russian Blues in newborns’ chambers to ward off evil spirits. The Russian Blue competed in a class including all other blue cats, until 1912, when it was given its own class. The first recorded showing of the breed was in 1875 at the Crystal Palace in England as the Archangel Cat. It is believed that the first Russian Blues were brought from the Archangel Isles to England and Northern Europe in the 1860s by sailors. They are also sometimes called Archangel Blues. The Russian Blue is a naturally occurring breed that originated in the port of Arkhangelsk, Russia.
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