Initially, he went with his comrades to the moose, it turns out, and took the appropriate cartridges, with which the big bear could only be injured and very angry. "A real Russian man! The elk ...

Le Charivari. April 17–18, 1854. LD 2493. “The Northern Bear, the most disagreeable of all the known bears.” The bellicose Russian Bear as an autocrat with all of its subjects kneeling at its feet.