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 Contrary to the West's general misperception, the following "Yeltsin years" proved to be a nightmare for Russia&mdash;but Russians have long learned how to survive in all circumstances and, in that free-for-all period that was mostly controlled by the Russian mafia and oligarchs-in-the-making (not to mention their foreign investor friends), they managed to do so and find their footing as well as they could. Then, in 1999, a new regime and a reconstruction era began under a new president, Vladimir Putin&mdash;to the relief of the Russian people, it must be said.
-Tereza Durova, as many of her compatriots, weathered the storm, and eventually retired from performing in 2004, after the death of her last elephant, Monri, during an engagement in Lipetsk, an industrial city southeast of Moscow in the Don basin. She was seventy-nine! Tereza then donated all her animals to the State Circus of Penza, which now bears her name. She passed away at age eighty-six on July 29, 2012, in Moscow, her hometown and her family seat, where she had retired.
+Tereza Durova, as many of her compatriots, weathered the storm, and eventually retired from performing in 2004, after the death of her last elephant, Monri, during an engagement in Lipetsk, an industrial city southeast of Moscow in the Don basin. She was seventy-nine! Tereza then donated all her animals to the State Circus of Penza, which now bears her name. She passed away at age eighty-six on July 29, 2012, in Moscow, her hometown and family seat, where she had retired.
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 Vasily Milva's birth name was Hundadze; he was of Georgian origins, but he had been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby: They left him in a cat's basket in front of a ''balagan'' (Russian fairgrounds booth). The owners of the balagan adopted the child, and gave him the name of Vasily, which was the name of the basket's true owner, their cat! Vasily’s new family, who were traveling entertainers, trained him as an acrobat. As such, he later went to work in Denmark, where he eventually took the Danish nationality, with the chosen name of Milva. Vasiliy would discover his true identity much later in life.
-Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with his partner. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to a daughter in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat, whom she called Tereza in homage to her own mother, Tereza Stadtler (she and Anatoly Durov never married).
+Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with his partner. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to a daughter in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat, whom she called Tereza in homage to her own mother, Tereza Stadtler (who never legally married Anatoly Durov).
 Tereza's father may have been a hand balancer, but he had married into the Durov family, a dynasty of animal trainers: Thus, he and Maria soon created their own animal act, and Vasily became an animal trainer&mdash;although this was not really new to him: He and his partner had previously used small monkeys in their acrobatic act. In time, they taught Tereza how to work with all sorts of animals&mdash;a diversity that was a trademark of all the Durovs. When she was sixteen, in 1942, Tereza adopted the Durovs' patronymic and, as ''Tereza Durova'', she debuted in the ring in her parents' animal act. Five years later, she took over the act.

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 Vasily Milva's birth name was Hundadze; he was of Georgian origins, but he had been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby: They left him in a cat's basket in front of a ''balagan'' (Russian fairgrounds booth). The owners of the balagan adopted the child, and gave him the name of Vasily, which was the name of the basket's true owner, their cat! Vasily’s new family, who were traveling entertainers, trained him as an acrobat. As such, he later went to work in Denmark, where he eventually took the Danish nationality, with the chosen name of Milva. Vasiliy would discover his true identity much later in life.
-Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with a partner named Nader. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to a daughter in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat, whom she called Tereza in homage to her own mother, Tereza Stadtler (she and Anatoly Durov never married).
+Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with his partner. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to a daughter in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat, whom she called Tereza in homage to her own mother, Tereza Stadtler (she and Anatoly Durov never married).
 Tereza's father may have been a hand balancer, but he had married into the Durov family, a dynasty of animal trainers: Thus, he and Maria soon created their own animal act, and Vasily became an animal trainer&mdash;although this was not really new to him: He and his partner had previously used small monkeys in their acrobatic act. In time, they taught Tereza how to work with all sorts of animals&mdash;a diversity that was a trademark of all the Durovs. When she was sixteen, in 1942, Tereza adopted the Durovs' patronymic and, as ''Tereza Durova'', she debuted in the ring in her parents' animal act. Five years later, she took over the act.

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 [[File:Milva_and_Maria_Durova.png|thumb|left|400px|Vasily Milva & Maria Durova (1917)]]The lineage of the various members of the [[The Durov Dynasty|Durov]] dynasty is generally complicated, due to an uncanny number of illegitimate unions and adopted names in both branches of the family (whether [[Vladimir Durov|Vladimir]]'s or Anatoly's), to which one may add the fact that this lineage was continued in large part by women. Tereza Durova's lineage is indeed no exception.
-Vasily Milva's birth name was Hundadze; he was of Georgian origins, but he had been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby: They left him in a cat's basket in front of a ''balagan'' (Russian fairgrounds booth). The owners of the balagan adopted the child, and gave him the name of Vasily, which was their cat's (the basket owner) name! Vasily’s new family, who were traveling entertainers, trained him as an acrobat. As such, he later went to work in Denmark, where he eventually took the Danish nationality, with the chosen name of Milva. Vasiliy would discover his true identity much later in life.
+Vasily Milva's birth name was Hundadze; he was of Georgian origins, but he had been abandoned by his parents when he was a baby: They left him in a cat's basket in front of a ''balagan'' (Russian fairgrounds booth). The owners of the balagan adopted the child, and gave him the name of Vasily, which was the name of the basket's true owner, their cat! Vasily’s new family, who were traveling entertainers, trained him as an acrobat. As such, he later went to work in Denmark, where he eventually took the Danish nationality, with the chosen name of Milva. Vasiliy would discover his true identity much later in life.
 Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with a partner named Nader. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to a daughter in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat, whom she called Tereza in homage to her own mother, Tereza Stadtler (she and Anatoly Durov never married).

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	* Biography: [[The Durov Dynasty]]		* Biography: [[The Durov Dynasty]]
		+	* Video: [[Yury_Durov_and_Tereza_Durova_Video_(1968)\|Tereza Durova & Yury Durov]], animal act (1968)

	==Image Gallery==		==Image Gallery==

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	==Animal Trainer==		==Animal Trainer==

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 File:Milva_and_Nader.png|Vasily Milva (left) & Nader (c.1915)
 File:Milva_and_Maria_Durova.png|Vasily Milva & Maria Durova (1917)
-File:Tereza_Vasilievna_Durova.jpeg|Tereza Durova (c.1975)
+File:Tereza_Durova_Poster.jpg|Tereza Durova in Hungary (1966)
 File:Tereza_Durova_and_Elephant.jpg|Tereza Durova (c.1985)
 File:Tereza_Durova_(c.1985).jpg|Tereza Durova in Minsk (c.1985)

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 Vasily had a hand-to-hand balancing act with a partner named Nader. He met Maria Durova at [[Circus Ciniselli]] in St. Petersburg (Russia's oldest circus building, which is still extent) where they were working in the same program just before the Bolshevik Revolution&mdash;she as an assistant to her brother, [[Anatoly Anatolievich Durov]], he as a hand-to-hand balancer with a partner named Nader. There, they fell in love, and they eventually got married. In 1926, Maria gave birth to Tereza Vasilievna in Voronezh, Anatoly Durov's family seat.
-Tereza's father may have been a hand balancer, but he had married into the Durov family, a dynasty of animal trainers: Thus, he and Maria soon created their own animal act, and Vasily became an animal trainer. In time, they taught Tereza how to work with all sorts of animals&mdash;a diversity that was a trademark of all the Durovs. When she was sixteen, in 1942, Tereza adopted the Durov patronym and, as ''Tereza Durova'', she debuted in the ring in her parents' animal act. Five years later, she took over the act.
+Tereza's father may have been a hand balancer, but he had married into the Durov family, a dynasty of animal trainers: Thus, he and Maria soon created their own animal act, and Vasily became an animal trainer&mdash;although this was not really new to him: He and his partner had previously used small monkeys in their acrobatic act. In time, they taught Tereza how to work with all sorts of animals&mdash;a diversity that was a trademark of all the Durovs. When she was sixteen, in 1942, Tereza adopted the Durovs' patronymic and, as ''Tereza Durova'', she debuted in the ring in her parents' animal act. Five years later, she took over the act.
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