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 After the taking-over of Bulgaria by the Communist Party in 1946, the Royal Dobrich Circus was nationalized and became ''Circus Rodina'' (National Circus) in 1948. Lazar kept the management of the circus, and eventually became the Director of the Bulgarian State Circus&mdash;a position he held from 1956 through 1961. As such, Lazar Dobrich also became a prominent circus arts teacher, creating or overseeing the creation of some of the most famous act of the Bulgarian circus during the Communist era. He passed away in February 1970, at age eighty-nine. In 2006, the Bulgarian Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp bearing his effigy.
-After WWII, the children of Alexandre Dobrich eventually settled in the United States: Vera, known as Lola Dobritch (1922-2008), already a celebrated tight wire dancer on her own right in Europe; and Alexandre, Jr., who became a major American circus impresario and director known as Al Dobritch (d. 1971).
+After WWII, the children of Alexandre Dobrich eventually settled in the United States: Vera, known as [[Lola Dobritch]] (1922-2008), already a celebrated tight wire dancer on her own right in Europe; and Alexandre, Jr., who became a major American circus impresario and director known as [[Al Dobritch]] (d. 1971).
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 Lazar Ivanov Dobrich was born June 23, 1881, in the village of Ravno Pole, near Sofia, in a family that was not connected with the circus. At age sixteen, he received a scholarship to study in a French university. Lazar, however, was a gymnastics enthusiast (as many young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&mdash;in that case, the celebrated [[Dimitrescu Troupe]], from Rumania, one of the greatest aerial horizontal-bar acts of the era. Lazar made his circus debut on October 1, 1897, at the [[Cirque Royal]] in Brussels, then under the management of the Rumanian director [[Cesar Sidoli]].
-Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in such major circuses as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
+Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', which he performed on an apparatus of his design. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in such major circuses as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
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 ===Lazar Dobrich===
-Lazar Ivanov Dobrich was born June 23, 1881, in the village of Ravno Pole, near Sofia, in a family that was not connected with the circus. At age sixteen, he received a scholarship to study in a French university. Lazar, however, was a gymnastics enthusiast (as many young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&mdash;in that case, the celebrated Dimitrescu Troupe, from Rumania, one of the greatest aerial horizontal-bar acts of the era. Lazar made his circus debut on October 1, 1897, at the [[Cirque Royal]] in Brussels, then under the management of the Rumanian director [[Cesar Sidoli]].
+Lazar Ivanov Dobrich was born June 23, 1881, in the village of Ravno Pole, near Sofia, in a family that was not connected with the circus. At age sixteen, he received a scholarship to study in a French university. Lazar, however, was a gymnastics enthusiast (as many young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&mdash;in that case, the celebrated [[Dimitrescu Troupe]], from Rumania, one of the greatest aerial horizontal-bar acts of the era. Lazar made his circus debut on October 1, 1897, at the [[Cirque Royal]] in Brussels, then under the management of the Rumanian director [[Cesar Sidoli]].
 Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in such major circuses as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.

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 In 1919, with his brother Aleksandr (Alexandre), who, like Lazar, had embarked on a circus career as a wrestler (a popular attraction in the circuses of the turn of the twentieth century), he built a resident circus in Sofia, the ''Coliseum'', which they managed until 1926. At the same time, Lazar edited the magazine ''Circus Voice''. Thus the Dobriches became part of Sofia's cultural fabric, and a well-respected name in the European circus world. In 1933, the Dobrich brothers created the itinerant ''Royal Dobrich Circus'', in association with A. Dimitrov and K. Mikhailov.
-After the taking-over of Bulgaria by the Communist Party in 1946, the Royal Dobrich Circus was nationalized and became ''Circus Rodina'' (National Circus) in 1948. Lazar kept the management of the circus, and eventually became the Director of the Bulgarian State Circus&mdash;a position he held from 1956 through 1961. As such, Lazar Dobrich also became a prominent circus arts teacher, creating or overseeing the creation of some of the most famous act of the Bulgarian circus during the Communist era. He passed away in February 1970, at age eighty-nine.
+After the taking-over of Bulgaria by the Communist Party in 1946, the Royal Dobrich Circus was nationalized and became ''Circus Rodina'' (National Circus) in 1948. Lazar kept the management of the circus, and eventually became the Director of the Bulgarian State Circus&mdash;a position he held from 1956 through 1961. As such, Lazar Dobrich also became a prominent circus arts teacher, creating or overseeing the creation of some of the most famous act of the Bulgarian circus during the Communist era. He passed away in February 1970, at age eighty-nine. In 2006, the Bulgarian Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp bearing his effigy.
 After WWII, the children of Alexandre Dobrich eventually settled in the United States: Vera, known as Lola Dobritch (1922-2008), already a celebrated tight wire dancer on her own right in Europe; and Alexandre, Jr., who became a major American circus impresario and director known as Al Dobritch (d. 1971).

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 Lazar Ivanov Dobrich was born June 23, 1881, in the village of Ravno Pole, near Sofia, in a family that was not connected with the circus. At age sixteen, he received a scholarship to study in a French university. Lazar, however, was a gymnastics enthusiast (as many young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&mdash;in that case, the celebrated Dimitrescu Troupe, from Rumania, one of the greatest aerial horizontal-bar acts of the era. Lazar made his circus debut on October 1, 1897, at the [[Cirque Royal]] in Brussels, then under the management of the Rumanian director [[Cesar Sidoli]].
-Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in major circuses such as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
+Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in such major circuses as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], and [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
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 Lazar Ivanov Dobrich was born June 23, 1881, in the village of Ravno Pole, near Sofia, in a family that was not connected with the circus. At age sixteen, he received a scholarship to study in a French university. Lazar, however, was a gymnastics enthusiast (as many young men were then, before gymnastics became a competitive sport), and he left his studies and "ran away and joined the circus", as the saying goes&mdash;in that case, the celebrated Dimitrescu Troupe, one of the greatest aerial horizontal-bar acts of the era. Lazar made his circus debut on October 1, 1897, at the [[Cirque Royal]] in Brussels, then under the management of the Rumanian director [[Cesar Sidoli]].
-Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career in Europe and abroad, appearing in major circuses such as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
+Dobrich worked intermittently with the Dimitrescu Troupe until 1901, and then went on to work as an independent performer. He eventually made a name for himself in 1905, at [[Circus Schumann (Berlin)|Circus Schumann]] in Berlin, with a daredevil act called ''The Trapeze of Death'', on an apparatus he had designed. From then on, he pursued a brilliant international career as an acrobat and aerialist in Europe and abroad, appearing in major circuses such as [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], [[Circus Renz|Renz]], [[The Pierantoni Dynasty|Pierantoni]], [[Circus Ciniselli|Ciniselli]], among many others.
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