Mr Tom, pet greyhound of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-96), shared a bed with her lover, the colossal Grigory Potemkin. The greyhound was one of the best loved animals among the royalty and nobility of Europe for centuries, as hundreds of portraits in the great galleries and houses of Britain and Europe attest.
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