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* Video: [[Kozlenko-Zelenova_Video_(2026)|Gleb Kozlenko & Elina Zelenova, aerial chains]], at Circus Nikulin (2026)

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Xeniya Elkina

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Kozlenko-Zelenova Video (2026)

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Gleb Kozlenko & Elina Zelenova, aerial chains, at the 4th [[''Artist'' Festival]] at Moscow's [[Circus Nikulin]] (2026)

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* Biography: [[Kozlenko & Zelenova]]

[[Category:Video Archive|Kozlenko & Zelenova]]

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The Panteleenko Brothers

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Panteleenko Video (1983)

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Panteleenko Video (1983)

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The Panteleenko Brothers, strap act, at the 9th [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] (1983) — ''Document: FR3 – France Televisions''

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* Biography: [[Panteleenko Brothers]]

[[Category:Video Archive|Panteleenko Brothers]]

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Selenge Troupe

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* Video: [[Selenge_Video_(2026)|Selenge Troupe, contortion act]], at Circus Nikulin in Moscow (2026)

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Selenge Video (2026)

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Selenge Troupe, contortion act, at the 4th [[''Artist'' Festival]] at Moscow's [[Circus Nikulin]] (2026)

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* Biography: [[Selenge Troupe]]

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Gérard Edon

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 ==New Videos==
 * [[Panteleenko_Video_(1983)|The Panteleenko Brothers]], strap act (1983)
 * [[Selenge_Video_(2026)|Selenge Troupe]], contortion act (2026)
 * [[Sukhorukov_Video_(2026)|Egor Sukhorukov]], aerial straps (2026)
 * [[Teslenko_Video_(2026)|The Teslenko Family]], group juggling (2026)
 ==New Oral Histories==

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−	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Elkina, Xeniya]][[Category:Aerialists\|Elkina Xeniya]][[Category:~~Strap Acts~~\|Elkina, Xeniya]]	+	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Elkina, Xeniya]][[Category:Aerialists\|Elkina Xeniya]][[Category:Aerial Chains\|Elkina, Xeniya]]

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	* [[Volkov_and_Elkina_Video_(2015)\|Sergey Volkov & Xeniya Elkina, aerial chains]], at the Bolshoi Circus in Moscow (2015)		* [[Volkov_and_Elkina_Video_(2015)\|Sergey Volkov & Xeniya Elkina, aerial chains]], at the Bolshoi Circus in Moscow (2015)

−	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Volkov, Sergey]][[Category:Aerialists\|Volkov, Sergey]][[Category:~~Strap Acts~~\|Volkov, Sergey]]	+	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Volkov, Sergey]][[Category:Aerialists\|Volkov, Sergey]][[Category:Aerial Chains\|Volkov, Sergey]]

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 ==New Videos==
 * [[Selenge_Video_(2026)|Selenge Troupe]], contortion act (2026)
 * [[Sukhorukov_Video_(2026)|Egor Sukhorukov]], aerial straps (2026)
 * [[Teslenko_Video_(2026)|The Teslenko Family]], group juggling (2026)
 * [[Fumagalli_Video_(2003)|Fumagalli & Daris]], clown entrée (2006)
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 ==See Also==
-* Biography: [[Kozlenko & Zelenova]]
+* Biography: [[Kozlenko and Zelenova]]
 [[Category:Video Archive|Kozlenko & Zelenova]]

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 ==See Also==
-* Video: [[Panteleenko_Brothers_BAC_Video_1990|The Panteleenko Brothers (Valery Panteleenko & Igor Gruzen)]], aerial strap act, in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Ballerinas, Clowns and Horses...'' (1990)
+* Video: [[Panteleenko_Video_(1983)|The Panteleenko Brothers, aerial strap act]], at the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo (1983)
 [[Category:Artists and Acts|Panteleenko Brothers, The]][[Category:Aerialists|Panteleenko Brothers, The]][[Category:Strap Acts|Panteleenko Brothers, The]]

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 ==See Also==
-* Biography: [[Panteleenko Brothers]]
+* Biography: [[The Panteleenko Brothers]]
 [[Category:Video Archive|Panteleenko Brothers]]

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−	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Selenge Troupe]][[Category:Acrobats\|Selenge Troupe]][[Category:~~Contortion Acts~~\|Selenge Troupe]]	+	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Selenge Troupe]][[Category:Acrobats\|Selenge Troupe]][[Category:Contortionists\|Selenge Troupe]]

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 File:Edon_-_Blackpool.jpg|Gérard Edon at Blackpool Tower Circus (1970)
 File:Edon_-_Bouglione.jpeg|Gérard Edon poster (c.1970)
 File:Gerard_Edon_CHB.jpg|Gérard Edon at the Cirque d'Hiver (1973)
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 [[Category:Artists and Acts|Edon, Gérard]][[Category:Aerialists|Edon, Gérard]][[Category:Washington Trapeze|Edon, Gérard]]

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		+	* Biography: [[Gérard Edon]]
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 ===The Medrano Sisters===
-[[File:The_Medrano_Sisters-1934.jpeg|thumb|left|400px|The Medrano Sisters (1934)]]The Swoboda sisters were all trained as circus artists, but three of them, Reserl, Wanda and Anita, became famous in the circus world for their remarkable equestrian act, known as The Medrano Sisters. They had created it under the guidance of their mother and the German circus director [[Adolph Fischer]], and it premiered at Circus Medrano-Swoboda in 1933. When the circus rested in its Viennese winter quarters, the Medrano Sisters found engagements in Europe’s most prestigious circuses and variety theaters&mdash;but tellingly, they never appeared at the Cirque Medrano in Paris... Arguably, the stellar reputation of the Medrano Sisters did much in Western Europe for that of the Medrano-Swoboda Circus, whose travels had confined it mostly in Central and Eastern Europe.
+[[File:Medrano_Sisters_-_Gaston_Paris.jpg|thumb|left|350px|The Medrano Sisters (c.1933)]]The Swoboda sisters were all trained as circus artists, but three of them, Reserl, Wanda and Anita, became famous in the circus world for their remarkable equestrian act, known as The Medrano Sisters. They had created it under the guidance of their mother and the German circus director [[Adolph Fischer]], and it premiered at Circus Medrano-Swoboda in 1933. When the circus rested in its Viennese winter quarters, the Medrano Sisters found engagements in Europe’s most prestigious circuses and variety theaters&mdash;but tellingly, they never appeared at the Cirque Medrano in Paris... Arguably, the stellar reputation of the Medrano Sisters did much in Western Europe for that of the Medrano-Swoboda Circus, whose travels had confined it mostly in Central and Eastern Europe.
 During WWII, Circus Medrano-Swoboda continued its touring in the Axis countries, opening traditionally in Vienna at Easter. The Swobodas’ winter quarters were located on Engerthstrasse in Vienna, close to the railway station and the train depot, which was a convenient location for a circus traveling by rail. But in time of war, it was also a strategic location, and the winter quarters were destroyed in the 1944 bombings of Vienna by the Allied forces. Then, in 1945, the traveling circus found itself on the path of the Soviet troops advancing on Vienna: Wagons and horses had to be abandoned in a hurry.

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 ===CIRCUS MEDRANO-SWOBODA===
+[[File:Medrano-Swoboda-1936.jpeg|right|400px]]
 ''Circus Medrano aus Wien'' was, between the two World Wars, one of Austria’s most important circuses&mdash;and one whose name was made famous in large part by the Medrano Sisters (Therese, Wanda, and Anita Swoboda), who performed one of the great equestrian acts of the period in top circuses and variety theaters all over Europe. The name of that circus was homonymous to that of the legendary Parisian circus, but had no connection with it. It was “the other Medrano”&mdash;and still is today, since the title has survived and belongs now (2011) to the Italian Casartelli Family.

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 Its founder, Ludwig Swoboda (1881-1952), was born on December 9, 1881 in Dürnbach, Burgenland, in what was then the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Dürnbach became part of Austria in 1918). His parents were of Czechoslovakian descent and although they didn’t come from a circus family, they owned a small circus that traveled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They always called Ludwig, who was born in the family’s horse-drawn living wagon, Lajos&mdash;the Hungarian equivalent of his German name.
-Ludwig received a traditional circus education within his family and was trained in all facets of circus arts, from tumbling to equestrianism. He grew into an ambitious young man and, at twenty-three, he decided to run his own circus. ''Zirkus Lajos'', as he called it, opened in Vienna on June 3, 1904. It was not yet an important enterprise when Ludwig Swoboda married Therese Karfiol (1893-1971) on January 16, 1912 in Vienna. Therese was fifth-generation of an old family of comedians and entertainers, allied to the Czech Berosini circus family; she was an equestrienne and she knew the circus business in and out. Therese would be instrumental in the management and development of her husband’s circus.
+Ludwig received a traditional circus education within his family and was trained in all facets of circus arts, from tumbling to equestrianism. He grew into an ambitious young man and, at twenty-three, he decided to run his own circus. ''Zirkus Lajos'', as he called it, opened in Vienna on June 3, 1904. It was not yet an important enterprise when Ludwig Swoboda married Therese Karfiol (1893-1971) on January 16, 1912 in Vienna. Therese was fifth-generation of an old family of comedians and entertainers, allied to the Czech Berousek (Berosini) circus family; she was an equestrienne and she knew the circus business in and out. Therese would be instrumental in the management and development of her husband’s circus.
 In 1914, at the outset of the First World War, Ludwig was drafted into the Imperial Army and the circus went into a long hibernation. The war over, Zirkus Lajos finally reopened; the year was 1919, and it started its tour in its home city of Vienna, where it played during the Easter season. After the deadly conflict that had devastated Europe, popular entertainment was much in demand, and circuses were flourishing; under the management of Ludwig and Therese Swoboda, Zirkus Lajos was no exception, and by 1920, it performed under a large, two-pole big top and was one of Austria’s largest circuses.

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	In the summer of 2008, The Cirque d'Hiver's façade underwent an extensive restoration: vanished decorative elements were rebuilt; the friezes, which had been damaged over the years, were repaired; and so were the equestrian statues, external lights, stained glass windows, etc. The building's original colors were reinstated, and the painted frieze in the foyer was restored; the vibrancy of its original colors, muted by years of exposition to cigarette smoke, became visible again. Other extensive work has begun in 2026, notably the restoration of the murals inside the house (which are badly damaged and have been hidden from view since the 1950s). The work is scheduled to be done during dark days over a five-year period, and it also includes a revamping of the house with new seats and installation of easy access for handicapped patrons.		In the summer of 2008, The Cirque d'Hiver's façade underwent an extensive restoration: vanished decorative elements were rebuilt; the friezes, which had been damaged over the years, were repaired; and so were the equestrian statues, external lights, stained glass windows, etc. The building's original colors were reinstated, and the painted frieze in the foyer was restored; the vibrancy of its original colors, muted by years of exposition to cigarette smoke, became visible again. Other extensive work has begun in 2026, notably the restoration of the murals inside the house (which are badly damaged and have been hidden from view since the 1950s). The work is scheduled to be done during dark days over a five-year period, and it also includes a revamping of the house with new seats and installation of easy access for handicapped patrons.
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−	Today under the efficient management of [[The Bouglione Family\|Odette Bouglione]], daughter of the last patriarch Émilien Bouglione (1934-2016), the artistic direction of her brother, Joseph Bouglione, Jr., and with the help of their sister [[The Bouglione Family\|Regina Bouglione]] and their brother [[The Bouglione Family\|Louis-Sampion Bouglione]], and after more than 150 years, the Cirque d’Hiver de Paris is younger than ever.

	== Suggested Reading ==		== Suggested Reading ==

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 ==In The Spotlight==
-===THE BLUMENFELD FAMILY===
+===CIRCUS MEDRANO-SWOBODA===
-[[File:5_Blumenfelds_Poster.jpg|right|300px]]The huge Blumenfeld family holds an important place in German and European circus history. One of the three major German-Jewish circus dynasties before World War II&mdash;along with the Strassburgers and the Lorches&mdash;the Blumenfelds were driven to bankruptcy and then brutally decimated by the Nazis. Before that tragedy, they had been a highly respected family of talented acrobats, aerialists, equestrians, and circus owners. Although some members of the family resurfaced after World War II, the Blumenfelds were never able to reclaim the position they had once held in the circus world.
-The Blumenfelds are allied with several other prominent Jewish families, such as the Goldkettes (Brönett), the Strassburgers, the Lorches, and the Könyots. They always married within their faith and, at times, like the Rothschilds, within their family&mdash;with perhaps the notable exceptions of Erich Blumenfeld, the youngest son of Simon Blumenfeld, who married Fanny Houcke, from the Franco-Swedish Houcke family, and his brother Alex, whose wife, Eugenie, came from an old Italian circus family, the Cardinales.
+''Circus Medrano aus Wien'' was, between the two World Wars, one of Austria’s most important circuses&mdash;and one whose name was made famous in large part by the Medrano Sisters (Therese, Wanda, and Anita Swoboda), who performed one of the great equestrian acts of the period in top circuses and variety theaters all over Europe. The name of that circus was homonymous to that of the legendary Parisian circus, but had no connection with it. It was “the other Medrano”&mdash;and still is today, since the title has survived and belongs now (2011) to the Italian Casartelli Family.
-Since Hirsch Blumenfeld (1788-1867), founder of the dynasty, created his circus in the mid-nineteenth century, many of his descendants have operated several different circuses under the Blumenfeld name. Hirsch had a large family that developed many branches, and it can be sometimes difficult to determine which branch a given Blumenfeld belonged to. The Blumenfeld circus owners, however, shared one defining trait: they were equestrians who served the equestrian circus tradition with distinction, even as the circus-menagerie was becoming the norm in Germany by the beginning of the twentieth century.
+Its founder, Ludwig Swoboda (1881-1952), was born on December 9, 1881 in Dürnbach, Burgenland, in what was then the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Dürnbach became part of Austria in 1918). His parents were of Czechoslovakian descent and although they didn’t come from a circus family, they owned a small circus that traveled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They always called Ludwig, who was born in the family’s horse-drawn living wagon, Lajos&mdash;the Hungarian equivalent of his German name.
-Hirsch Blumenfeld was born Hirsch Levy in 1788 in Isenburg, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, one of the many German states. His parents were Levy Wolf (1770-1828), a Jewish cantor, and his wife Rosa (Rösgen), née Cahn (?-1840). The Blumenfeld patronym came later: Under Jewish naming tradition, a son took his father’s given name as a patronym, so Hirsch, as Levy’s son, became Hirsch Levy. Hirsch didn't embrace his father's calling: He became instead a traveling entertainer, an occupation that had attracted many of his coreligionists over the centuries..... ([[The Blumenfeld Family|more...]])
+Ludwig received a traditional circus education within his family and was trained in all facets of circus arts, from tumbling to equestrianism. He grew into an ambitious young man and, at twenty-three, he decided to run his own circus. ''Zirkus Lajos'', as he called it, opened in Vienna on June 3, 1904. It was not yet an important enterprise when Ludwig Swoboda married Therese Karfiol (1893-1971) on January 16, 1912 in Vienna. Therese was fifth-generation of an old family of comedians and entertainers, allied to the Czech Berouzek (Berosini) circus family; she was an equestrienne and she knew the circus business in and out. Therese would be instrumental in the management and development of her husband’s circus.
 ==New Essays and Biographies==

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 File:Circus_Krone_in_Munich.jpg|Circus Krone in Munich (2025)
 File:Kronebau_25-26.jpg|Poster for the 2025-26 season at Circus Kronebau (2025)
 </Gallery>
 [[Category:Circuses|Krone Circus]][[Category:History|Krone Circus]]

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		+	* Circuses: [[Circus Krone]]
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