Search results

From Circopedia

  • ...ions as Zbysko, Padubny, and Hackenschmidt. His act met with approval, and Ciniselli extended Giacomino's contract for another three months. ...nd Giacomino also struck a friendship with the writers Leonid Andreyev and Aleksandr Kuprin. He helped Andreyev research his clown character for his novel ''He
    8 KB (1,243 words) - 03:48, 20 April 2019
  • ...us of the Russian director of Italian descent [[Circus Ciniselli|Aleksandr Ciniselli]] (1861-1933) in 1909, 1910, and 1912; the circus of the Russian (recently
    9 KB (1,293 words) - 00:20, 10 May 2022
  • ...iginated the flying trapeze in 1859, is one of them. The glorious [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg, Russia’s oldest circus, is another one. And in Mosco ...first circus, in 1827 near the Fontanka canal, on the spot where [[Circus Ciniselli]] (which is extant) would be erected half a century later. Tourniaire had p
    23 KB (3,654 words) - 20:30, 22 August 2022
  • ...der, and Guerra used that money to beef-up his company. He hired [[Gaetano Ciniselli]] (1815-1881), a pupil of [[The Franconi Dynasty|Adolphe Franconi]] and Fra ...ts in Russia an unprecedented vogue. Nikolai, well aware of it, called for Aleksandr Mikhailovich Guedeonov (1791-1867), the Director of the ''Direction des ThÃ
    32 KB (5,217 words) - 05:35, 26 January 2023
  • ...i Kiss]], the father of the legendary acrobats (and future "pedagogues") [[Aleksandr and Violetta Kiss]], and himself a former clown and juggler. Engibarov cons ...onsky|Salamonsky]], [[Massimiliano Truzzi Sr|Truzzi]], [[Gaetano Ciniselli|Ciniselli]]—had played there at a time or another with their companies. But mo
    22 KB (3,615 words) - 03:08, 12 January 2022
  • ...being developed mostly by foreigners whose names—[[Gaetano Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], [[The Truzzi Family|Truzzi]], or [[Albert Salamonsky|Salamonsky]]— They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attachd to one of the vast lands
    15 KB (2,403 words) - 21:31, 27 April 2022
  • ...ically where St. Petersburg’s [[Circus Ciniselli (St. Petersburg)|Circus Ciniselli]] stands today. Tourniaire’s circus had only a short existence: it was bo ...ians and entertainers, who came to Circus Hinné with his own troupe. Both Ciniselli and Salamonsky would become major figures of Russian circus history.
    35 KB (5,657 words) - 21:55, 25 January 2024
  • ...Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others. In 1919, with his brother Aleksandr (Alexandre), who, like Lazar, had embarked on a circus career as a wrestler
    4 KB (631 words) - 20:15, 7 September 2014
  • [[File:Alessandro_Ciniselli.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Alessandro Ciniselli (1886)]]Emil Teodorovich Hirschfeld-Renard (Эмиль Теодорович ...] (1861-1933), former director of the Circus of Warsaw and son of [[Andrea Ciniselli]] (1840-1891) of the famous Italo-Russian circus dynasty.
    65 KB (10,511 words) - 03:50, 3 December 2021
  • ...of truly impressive acts, among which such heavy-weights as the amazing [[Aleksandr and Violetta Kiss]], the spectacular [[Aleksandrov-Serge Troupe]] of jockey File:Ciniselli_-_Oleg_Popov.jpeg|Oleg Popov on tour at Circus Ciniselli in St. Petersburg (2016)
    31 KB (5,096 words) - 23:01, 22 February 2024
  • In 1958, he was cast as an inept fireworks worker by film director Aleksandr Fayntsimmer in his movie ''The Girl with a Guitar.'' It was a semi-propagan ...that had been brought to the circus. On his tomb, a statue by the sculptor Aleksandr Rukavishnikov (the author of the monument erected in front of Circus Nikuli
    37 KB (5,610 words) - 20:31, 22 August 2022
  • ...Nikolaevich Butenko. Butenko, who will later be known by his stage name, [[Aleksandr Buslaev]] (1894-1976), was sixteen years Irina's senior but she nonetheless ...er.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Buslaevs' sled thrill act (1935)]]Like Irina, Aleksandr Butenko was attracted to working in the circus. Butenko was a good mechanic
    18 KB (2,896 words) - 21:09, 18 May 2022
  • ...ilmed in 1966 at Leningrad's State Circus (today St. Petersburg's [[Circus Ciniselli]]), from the movie ''Я работаю волшебником'' ("I work as * Biography: [[Aleksandr Nikobatze]]
    386 B (43 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2019