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 <Gallery>
 File:Valentin_Gneushev_Teens.jpg|Valentin Gneushev in his teens (c.1965)
 Image:Valentin_Gneushev.jpg|Valentin Gneushev (c.1990)
 Image:Vladimir_Tsarkov_as_Red_Harlequin.jpg|Vladimir Tsarkov

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 File:CIRK_VALENTIN_(1991).jpg|Cirk Valentin Poster (1991)
 Image:Cirk_Valentin.jpg|Cirk Valentin Playbill Cover (1991)
 File:Yelena_Larkina.jpg|Yelena Larkina
 File:Borodina.jpg|Elena Borodina

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 File:Valentin_Gneushev_Teens.jpg|Valentin Gneushev in his teens (c.1965)
-Image:Valentin_Gneushev.jpg|Valentin Gneushev
+Image:Valentin_Gneushev.jpg|Valentin Gneushev (c.1990)
 Image:Vladimir_Tsarkov_as_Red_Harlequin.jpg|Vladimir Tsarkov
 File:Andrei_Ivakhnenko_B-W.jpg|Andrey Ivakhnenko

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 [[Category:History|Gneushev, Valentin]][[Category:Circus Owners and Directors|Gneushev, Valentin]]

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 ===Epilogue===
-[[File:Valentin_Gneushev_-_Old_Age.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Valentin in his last years (c.2020)]]As the twentieth century ended, Valentin slowly took his interests away from the circus, turning to theater, movies, and television. Just as the new Russian government had finally recognized his exceptional contribution to the circus arts, making him "Art Worker Emeritus of the Russian Federation", he was burning bridges with the circus world. Sadly, his departing was of course the circus world’s loss.
+As the twentieth century ended, Valentin slowly took his interests away from the circus, turning to theater, movies, and television. Just as the new Russian government had finally recognized his exceptional contribution to the circus arts, making him "Art Worker Emeritus of the Russian Federation", he was burning bridges with the circus world. Sadly, his departing was of course the circus world’s loss.
-Yet, ten years into the twenty-first century, many of Valentin’s best acts could still be seen in the best circuses and variety theaters of the world. They still impressed by their amazing originality, their artistic perfection, and their unmatched creativity. Valentin’s influence spawned a plethora of new circus choreographers, who tried&mdash;a few successfully, many more, much less so&mdash;to shake up conventions and participate in the creation of a new circus language.
+[[File:Valentin_Gneushev_-_Old_Age.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Valentin in his last years (c.2020)]]Yet, ten years into the twenty-first century, many of Valentin’s best acts could still be seen in the best circuses and variety theaters of the world. They still impressed by their amazing originality, their artistic perfection, and their unmatched creativity. Valentin’s influence spawned a plethora of new circus choreographers, who tried&mdash;a few successfully, many more, much less so&mdash;to shake up conventions and participate in the creation of a new circus language.
 But Valentin Gneushev had a rule that some of his later would-be successors often forgot: He used only highly skilled performers, who mastered their specialty. They were all superb technicians. Valentin never tried to compensate technical weakness with unconventional, eye-catching staging; on the contrary, he used the superior skills of his students to create a work of art that was unquestionably a true circus act&mdash;and therefore, unequivocally, not a piece of dance or movement theater. He took remarkable circus performers and turned them into extraordinary circus artists. This was his true genius and will be his true legacy.

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 * Video: [[Simonov's_Hommage_a_Leotard_Video_(1993)|''Hommage à Léotard'', Flying Act]]
 * Video: [[Evgeny_Pimonenko_Video_(1997)|Evgeny Pimonenko: ''Your Pierrot'', Juggler]]
 * Video: [[Zemskov_Russian_Barre_Video_(1995)|The Zemskov Troupe, Russian Barre]]
 * Video: [[Zemskov_-_Perch_Act_Video_(1995)|The Zemskov Troupe, Perch-Pole Balancing]]
 * Video: [[Ivakhnenko_Video_(2004)|Andrey Ivakhnenko, Slack Wire]]

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 But Valentin Gneushev had a rule that some of his later would-be successors often forgot: He used only highly skilled performers, who mastered their specialty. They were all superb technicians. Valentin never tried to compensate technical weakness with unconventional, eye-catching staging; on the contrary, he used the superior skills of his students to create a work of art that was unquestionably a true circus act&mdash;and therefore, unequivocally, not a piece of dance or movement theater. He took remarkable circus performers and turned them into extraordinary circus artists. This was his true genius and will be his true legacy.
-In his twilight years, Valentin's health began to decline, both physically and, to some extent, mentally: It is hard for someone who was at a time considered a genius (and a genius indeed he was) to be socially forgotten. In his last years, his appearance became that of an old eccentric character, which made him impossible to ignore, but also sometimes difficult to recognize. Then, in the week of March 9, 2026, his daughter, who took care of him, was worried by his sudden silence. On March 11, she went to his apartment in Moscow , and found him unresponsive: He had died of heart failure, alone.
+In his twilight years, Valentin's health began to decline, both physically and, to some extent, mentally: It is hard for someone who was at a time considered a genius (and a genius indeed he was) to become socially isolated. In his last years, his appearance became that of an old eccentric character, which made him impossible to ignore, but also sometimes difficult to recognize. Then, in the week of March 9, 2026, his daughter, who took care of him, was worried by his sudden silence. On March 11, she went to his apartment in Moscow , and found him unresponsive: He had died of heart failure, alone.
-Valentin Gneushev's passing was largely reported and commented by Russian news media: He was remembered as a major figure in the Russian performing arts. He was laid to rest at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery, near Moscow. Valentin once told a friend: "I will speak someone else's words, but I like them. 'To be joyful is a necessity and a duty.' This was written by [Gabriel Marcía] Márquez. The meaning of life is in joy. And this is what I am telling you now, when I am tormented by people, the structure of the world, love. I will never give up joy. We should rejoice at everything. Rejoice at a funeral&mdash;when a person has finally died."
+Valentin Gneushev's passing was largely reported and commented by Russian news media: He was remembered as a major figure in the Russian performing arts; he was also an epoch-making figure in Circus history. He was laid to rest at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery, near Moscow. Valentin once told a friend: "I will speak someone else's words, but I like them. 'To be joyful is a necessity and a duty.' This was written by [Gabriel Marcía] Márquez. The meaning of life is in joy. And this is what I am telling you now, when I am tormented by people, the structure of the world, love. I will never give up joy. We should rejoice at everything. Rejoice at a funeral&mdash;when a person has finally died."
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 * Video: [[Ivakhnenko_Video_(2004)|Andrey Ivakhnenko, Slack Wire]]
 * Video: [[Gasser and Kreer Video 1995|Johnny Gasser & Yury Kreer, Hand-to-Hand Balancing]]
-* Video: [[Larkina_Video_(1994)|Yelena Larkina, Hula-Hoops]]
+* Video: [[Larkina_Video_(1993)|Yelena Larkina, Hula-Hoops]]
 * Video: [[Kurbanov_Video_(1994)|The Kurbanov Troupe, Risley act]]
 * Video: [[Diana_and_Yury_Video|Yury Shavro and Diana Aleshchenko, Unicycle]]

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 == See Also ==
-* Video: [[Gneushev_Video_(c.1990)|Valentin Gneushev Interview (c.1990)
+* Video: [[Gneushev_Video_(c.1990)|Valentin Gneushev Interview]] (c.1990)
 * Video: [[Pavlenko_Video_(1990)|Nikolai Pavlenko, Tiger Act]]
 * Video: [[Vladimir_Tsarkov_BAC_1992_Video|Vladimir Tsarkov: ''The Red Harlequin'', Juggler]]