Circus

The American Circus: A History of the Big Top

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

Maybe it’s the odor, more than anything else, that identifies the experience of the circus. Maybe it’s the odor, more than anything else, that identifies the experience of the circus—the strangely distinctive scent, the smell of it all: an aromatic assault that seems to plunge down the throat and seize the tonsils. It’s a complex[…]

The Nikitin Brothers and the 19th-Century Russia Circus

Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attached to one of the vast lands belonging to the Crown. By Dominique JandoCircus Consultant Introduction In nineteenth-century Russia, circus was extremely popular among the aristocracy and the people alike, but the Russian circus was being developed mostly by foreigners whose names—Ciniselli, Truzzi, or Salamonsky—became[…]