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 Vladimir Leonidevich Durov was born on June 25, 1863 to a wealthy aristocratic family in Moscow. He was the fourth child and elder son of Leonid Dmitrievich Durov (1832-1867), a hereditary Lord of the Province of Moscow, who was an officer in the Moscow Police&mdash;a job he did more because he wanted to than because he had to. Vladimir’s brother, [[Anatoly Durov|Anatoly Leonidevich]] (1864-1916), was born seventeen months later.
-The Durov name was well known in Russia, where the family had already produced a celebrity: Nadezhda Durova (1783-1846), remembered in Russian history as the ''Cavalry Girl'', was Vladimir’s grandaunt. Dressed as a man, she had enrolled in a cavalry regiment to fight Napoleon’s advance in 1812. She is said to have received a medal from the hand of Field-Marshall Kutuzov, the man who had defeated Napoleon. Celebrated by Pushkin, Nadezhda eventually became a successful writer.
+The Durov name was well known in Russia, where the family had already produced a celebrity: Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), remembered in Russian history as the ''Cavalry Girl'', was Vladimir’s grandaunt. Dressed as a man, she had enrolled in a cavalry regiment to fight Napoleon’s advance in 1812. She is said to have received a medal from the hand of Field-Marshall Kutuzov, the man who had defeated Napoleon. Celebrated by Pushkin, Nadezhda eventually became a successful writer.
 Vladimir Durov had three elder sisters: Margarita (1854-?); Konkordya (1860-?), among whose descendants is Lev Durov, the famous Russian actor; Liudmila (1862-?); and a younger sister, Valentina (1866-1940). Vladimir’s mother, Maria Dmitrievna Durova (1833-66), probably suffered from complications caused by Valentina’s birth: she died soon after, in 1866. Vladimir was only three years old at the time. Devastated, Vladimir’s father began to drink himself to death. He suffered from hallucinations and died a year later, in 1867.

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 Vladimir Leonidevich Durov was born on June 25, 1863 to a wealthy aristocratic family in Moscow. He was the fourth child and elder son of Leonid Dmitrievich Durov (1832-1867), a hereditary Lord of the Province of Moscow, who was an officer in the Moscow Police&mdash;a job he did more because he wanted to than because he had to. Vladimir’s brother, [[Anatoly Durov|Anatoly Leonidevich]] (1864-1916), was born seventeen months later.
-The Durov name was well known in Russia, where the family had already produced a celebrity: Nadezhda Durova, remembered in Russian history as the ''Cavalry Girl'', was Vladimir’s grandaunt. Dressed as a man, she had enrolled in a cavalry regiment to fight Napoleon’s advance in 1812. She is said to have received a medal from the hand of Field-Marshall Kutuzov, the man who had defeated Napoleon. Celebrated by Pushkin, Nadezhda eventually became a successful writer.
+The Durov name was well known in Russia, where the family had already produced a celebrity: Nadezhda Durova (1783-1846), remembered in Russian history as the ''Cavalry Girl'', was Vladimir’s grandaunt. Dressed as a man, she had enrolled in a cavalry regiment to fight Napoleon’s advance in 1812. She is said to have received a medal from the hand of Field-Marshall Kutuzov, the man who had defeated Napoleon. Celebrated by Pushkin, Nadezhda eventually became a successful writer.
 Vladimir Durov had three elder sisters: Margarita (1854-?); Konkordya (1860-?), among whose descendants is Lev Durov, the famous Russian actor; Liudmila (1862-?); and a younger sister, Valentina (1866-1940). Vladimir’s mother, Maria Dmitrievna Durova (1833-66), probably suffered from complications caused by Valentina’s birth: she died soon after, in 1866. Vladimir was only three years old at the time. Devastated, Vladimir’s father began to drink himself to death. He suffered from hallucinations and died a year later, in 1867.

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-[[File:Balagans_in_Tula.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Russian balagans (1873)]]The brothers much preferred circus acrobatics to academic studies and military exercises. This passion eventually led to their being expelled from the academy. Left to their own devices, Vladimir and Anatoly used the money their godfather had given them to hire as their teacher Angelo Briatore, an Italian acrobat from the troupe of [[Carl Magnus Hinné]]. Briatore taught them the basics of acrobatics in the old way: with much whipping. When Zakharov discovered the physical abuse, he got rid of Briatore.
+The brothers much preferred circus acrobatics to academic studies and military exercises. This passion eventually led to their being expelled from the academy. Left to their own devices, Vladimir and Anatoly used the money their godfather had given them to hire as their teacher Angelo Briatore, an Italian acrobat from the troupe of [[Carl Magnus Hinné]]. Briatore taught them the basics of acrobatics in the old way: with much whipping. When Zakharov discovered the physical abuse, he got rid of Briatore. [[File:Balagans_in_Tula.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Russian balagans (1873)]]
 Around 1878, Otto Kleist, a balagan acrobat, taught Vladimir and Anatoly a trapeze act. The following year, the brothers made their performing debut in the balagan of V.A. Weinstok in Tver’, a city north of Moscow. They also worked in the balagan of Rinaldo, a magician, before finally joining the Robinson-Nicolet troupe&mdash;a significant step up, given that the troupe worked in circuses. They left Robinson-Nicolet in 1881 after Anatoly had an argument with his employers&mdash;the first of many arguments that would plague Anatoly’s career. It was probably because of Anatoly's temperament that the brothers separated.

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 File:Vladimir_Durov_and_Dog.jpg|Vladimir Durov (c.1910)
 File:Durov_and_Pig.jpg|Vladimir Durov and friend (c.1910)