A bronze group of a troika featuring three galloping horses pulling a sleigh with two warmly-clad figures seated behind the izvoshchik, traveling over rough terrain. Abundant detail, considering

diminutive size⎯10 ½ inches, inscribed with foundry mark:

“FABR. C. F. WOERFFEL. ST. PETERSBOURG” dated “1877” and

signed in Cyrillic “GRACHEV.”

    Described, labeled and pictured in Book Two, Page 297, image # 1068; “Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930” by Harold Berman, Abage Publishing, Chicago, 1976.

                                       Price $ 6,000