ORIGINS
At the beginning of XX century, the English Toy Terrier was the most popular and most famous dog among Russian aristocracy. With the rise of Communism, most of these dogs were murdered because of the belief they were of no use.  Some of these Toy Terriers survived in some remote areas of Soviet Union, particularly in Siberia and Bielorussia. In the 50s some breeders tried to make this breed revive, starting from those subject which had kept some features of this small dog. Of course the dogs used for breeding were without pedigree, and many were not pure-bred. The results of their efforts were completely unespected, because the Russkiy Toy Terrier was born, and in some ways it is completely different from the English Toy Terrier.

Ever since, the evolution of the breed went on on its way.

On 12th October 1958 two Russkiy Toy Terrier, one of them with slightly longer hair, gave birth to a male which had wonderful fringes around the ears and legs. So, it was decided to keep this feature, this male was later mated to a female with longer hair and so on, by mating dogs with this characteristic this variety was obtained. A Moscow breeder Yevgueniya Fominitchna had a very important role for the acknowledgment of the long-haired variety.

This way, there were two varieties, long and short-haired.

In 1962, in Russia, it was recognized as pure-bred dog and only on 21 Febbraio 2006 the FCI recognized this breed.