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  • ...entury. The circus, designed by the architect August Weber and financed by Aleksandr Danilov, a gold mining entrepreneur and circus enthusiast, was completed on ...d gave riding lessons. The transaction included a promise signed by Dmitri Nikitin that the brothers wouldn’t compete with Salamonsky in Moscow. (Salamonsky
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  • ...ts in Russia an unprecedented vogue. Nikolai, well aware of it, called for Aleksandr Mikhailovich Guedeonov (1791-1867), the Director of the ''Direction des ThĂ ...[[Anatoly Durov]]—and even directors like the [[The Nikitin Brothers|Nikitin]] brothers—but speaking of a "Russian circus" was stretching a little
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  • [[File:Circus_Nikitin_in_Moscow.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Circus Nikitin in Moscow (c.1915)]] ...onymous with Russian circus. There was one notable exception, however: The Nikitin brothers, Dmitri (1835-1918), Akim (1843-1917), and Piotr (1846-1921), who
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  • ...a Timofeevna Borodina (1912-1953), the granddaughter of the famous chemist Aleksandr Borodin; after Zinaida’s tragic death in a car crash, Yury re-married wit ...atirist, like his father. While working at [[The Circuses Of Moscow|Circus Nikitin]] in Moscow, he made anti-war jokes that resulted in his being sent to a ca
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  • ...us HinnĂ© until 1892, and more importantly, of [[The_Nikitin_Brothers|Akim Nikitin]] and his brothers: In 1886, when they occupied the old Panorma building ne ...d even the Russian [[Nikolai Nikitin]], who had succeeded his father, Akim Nikitin, after his death in 1917).
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  • ...ced the company to dissolve. Emil found a job in the traveling circus of [[Aleksandr Ciniselli|Alksandr (Alessandro) Ciniselli]] (1861-1933), former director of With the single exception of the [[The Nikitin Brothers|Nikitin]] brothers, circus and variety in old Russia had been in the hands of entre
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  • ...a, and began his career as an animal keeper for the [[The Nikitin Brothers|Nikitin]] brothers, who had a circus building in Nizhny Novgorod. ...od horseman and even trained elephants; his daughter, Vardia, and his son, Aleksandr, became very competent equestrians under his tutelage.
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