The flamboyant big-cat aficionados of the Gilded Age weren’t strangers to fierce competition, threats, and bizarre drama....
Circus
Investigating the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle....
Levitation, magicians, gambling, “smart pigs”, acrobatic tricks – the people of the 19th century had a great...
Maybe it’s the odor, more than anything else, that identifies the experience of the circus. Maybe it’s...
They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attached to one of the...