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  ...nal website, originally created as a project of the non-profit [[Big Apple Circus]]''.</div><br/> ...ad fall obliged her to abandon her trapeze; she had been until then a true circus star whose ballet training and her past as an acrobatic dancer had made her
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• Darix Togni
  ==Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...à la Richard'' act with his sisters Leda and Doly, and then appeared in a Russian dance act with his cousins Wally and Angly. At age fourteen, he was include
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• Anatoly Durov
  ...lias, and Terezas, all bearing the Durov name, they have given the Russian circus an impressive number of talented clowns, animal trainers, and entertainment ...overnment, they became popular heroes in the waning decades of the Russian Empire. The Soviet regime, always eager to play the populist card, did not hesitat
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• Cirkusbygningen (Copenhagen)
  == THE CIRCUS OF COPENHAGEN == ''By Johan Vinberg, Swedish Circus Academy''
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• Charly Baumann
  ...928, in a family connected to show business and animals, albeit not to the circus: Heinz’s father was a movie stuntman who worked with horses for UFA in Be ...monumental [[Circus Busch]] in Berlin, and had reigned over a vast circus empire that included circuses in Altona, Hamburg, Breslau, and Vienna, and for a f
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• Alfred Court
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner, Animal Trainer== ...the greatest wild animal trainers of all times&mdash;and as such, a major circus star in Europe and America.
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• The Indian Circus
  ...y where the level of extreme poverty is still fairly high, a few traveling circus entrepreneurs may have resorted to methods that have fortunately vanished m [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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• Russia's First National Circus
  ...n [[Alessandro Guerra]] and his troupe gave their first performance in the circus they had just built on the old Place des Manèges&mdash;the "merry-go-round ...a French flavor, perfectly suitable for that mostly French-speaking city (Russian was then reserved for the lower classes!). Guerra, who was now 63, had been
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• The Nikitin Brothers
  [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ==Circus Entrepreneurs==
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• Camillio Mayer
  ...Mülhausen (today Mulhouse) in Alsace, which had become part of the German Empire after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. However, ...is equipment. Finally, at the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russian troupes.
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Coco
  ...or which he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). ...ay Daugavpils), in southwestern Latvia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He had seven brothers and sisters.
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• The Circuses Of Moscow
  ...etnoy Boulevard, and the [[Bolshoi Circus]] (''bolshoi'' means ''big'', in Russian) on Vernadsky Avenue&mdash;and there have been indeed several others before ...Ciniselli (St. Petersburg)|Circus Ciniselli]] stands today. Tourniaire’s circus had only a short existence: it was bought back by the government of St. Pet
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• Kio
  ..., where they performed extensively on international tours of the "[[Moscow Circus]]." Kio’s illusions had a unique particularity: they were created to be p ...film, and they were regularly and, sometimes, opulently chronicled in the Russian press&mdash;and by the Soviet gossipmongers, who showed a tabloid interest
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...ntury, under a succession of owners of more or less legitimate lineage. In circus lore, Sarrasani is still a fabled name that evokes a history of epic propor ==HANS STOSCH’S CIRCUS SARRASANI==
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• Vitaliy Smolyanets
  ...ness Empire'', and won the coveted Russian ''Golden Bear''. He had reached circus star status. On February 9, 2015, during an engagement at the State Circus of Tver, Vitaliy was driving in the region when he saw the scene of a car a
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• Yury Nikulin
  ==Clown, Actor, Circus Director== ...ominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...rque Medrano holds a singular place in the Parisian cultural fabric and in circus history. From its beginnings as Cirque Fernando, in 1873, until the end of ...into genuine circus stars; appearing in its ring was a recognition for any circus artist. Its last performance under Jérôme Medrano’s reign in January 19
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• Edoardo Raspini
  ...e, Rastelli was also born in Russia.) Tamara, Edoardo’s mother, was pure Russian. ...was already an accomplished juggler; he made his solo debut in 1942, at [[Circus Mikkenie-Strassburger]] in Holland, with his beautiful sister, Elvira, as h
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• Irina Bugrimova
  ...tion in that domain was [[Margarita Nazarova]] (1926-2005), another Soviet circus legend, who began performing in the cage fourteen years after her! ===From Competitive Sports to The Circus===
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