Although they were living very lower-middle class, Mrs. Russian had all gold teeth - a real status symbol in Russia ;-) I understood their daughter (spoke english with a thick accent) to say that Mr Russian went back to Russia often, but their dogs were for protection. I didn't even WANT to know what he was doing going back and forth to Russia for that he needed 2 enormous Shepherds for protection!
I'll see if I can find a picture of him to freepmail to you. I'm a bit handicapped in that by having lost my laptop (which was still Windows Vista) to a power outage and being forced to get a Windows 10 replacement, so the restoration of my data is going slow...
HAHA, well it could be then that they had authentic EES since they certainly had connections, but every once in a great while I’ve had people email me and ask if my dogs are them because “all German Shepherds have sloped back so they couldn’t possibly be a GSD” and they saw the EES in a book or on a website. Would love to see a pic, but no worries if you can’t. I’m sure he’s beautiful :)