“After some digging, I found out the ‘gun’ was actually a club with Russian ... depictions of bear-baiting generally do not feature participants in any kind of spiked armor, he said.

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.