He Moscow circus was opened on 20 October 1880 by albert Salamonsky. The building was designed by architect August Weber. At the opening were: gymnast Henrietta, who juggled on a stretched wire, MS Truzzi, jumping on a Bareback horse rider Freddie Salamonsky, clowns and gymnasts, the brothers Pascal and albert Salamonsky with 14 trained stallions. Also there was the ballet-pantomime "the Life is in the winter night" with skating and sledding together with comic scenes. The main visitors of the circus was Moscow merchant. In addition, Salamonsky was trying to attract to the circus and the common people, making cheap tickets to the gallery. Monument to Yuri Nikulin circus before
In addition, the circus was working a lot of clowns. The basic principle Salamonsky was: "what kind of a circus, if the audience there are a few laughs?". The circus was made by Anatoly and Vladimir Durov, clowns, goats, grandma, Max Vysokinskiy, BIM-BOM. Touring foreign artists. For many seasons he has played clowns: Tanti (Bedini), Feldman, Sergey Alferov, Bernardo, Krasucki, Sergey kristov and many others.
Great attention Salamonsky paid work with horses that are held in the programmes of the circus of a significant proportion. He was given a wonderful horse rooms horse team simultaneously stood up on its hind legs, waltzed, walked across rope, jumped over the adjacent six other horses.
Interestingly, to circus Salamonsky was not considered a spectacular place for children. Salamonsky first realized that children were a wonderful audience for the circus and that it is possible to earn not bad. He wrote a petition for permission to give the morning presentation (e.g. morning), saying that the program will adapt to the child's perception. Circus every Sunday gave children's performances. For Christmas arranged Christmas tree with dances and dancing, after which the children received gifts. Especially for children Salamonsky put the children's ballets and pantomimes. One of them, "Fairy doll", was released in 1895 and was very popular for many years.
In addition to circus performances, the circus was used for displaying the panoramas. For example, there was exhibited panoramas Jan Joints "Calvary" and "quo Vadis". The show has been visited Leo Tolstoy and Pavel Florensky.
In 1919, with the advent of Soviet power, the circus was nationalized and became the first Soviet state circus. Ever worked famous clowns Dmitry Alferov, Pencil, Boris Vyatkin, Leonid, cuxo, Oleg Popov, Yuri Nikulin and Mikhail Shuydin, Leonid Yengibarov, Anatoly Latyshev. For many years the permanent circus Ringmaster (Ringmaster) worked Alexander Bush, which is still considered one of the best in their profession. Important role in the production of many programmes was played by Arnold G. Arnold and mark Solomonovich Mestechkin working as the Director of the circus.
In 1985, the circus was closed for capital reconstruction and after it was opened in 1989. The money for the reconstruction of the then Director of the circus Yuri Nikulin was able to with the help of Nikolai Ryzhkov. In December 1996, the circus was named "Moscow circus of Nikulin on Tsvetnoy Boulevard".
Monument to Yuri Nikulin circus before
In addition, the circus was working a lot of clowns. The basic principle Salamonsky was: "what kind of a circus, if the audience there are a few laughs?". The circus was made by Anatoly and Vladimir Durov, clowns, goats, grandma, Max Vysokinskiy, BIM-BOM. Touring foreign artists. For many seasons he has played clowns: Tanti (Bedini), Feldman, Sergey Alferov, Bernardo, Krasucki, Sergey kristov and many others.
Great attention Salamonsky paid work with horses that are held in the programmes of the circus of a significant proportion. He was given a wonderful horse rooms horse team simultaneously stood up on its hind legs, waltzed, walked across rope, jumped over the adjacent six other horses.
Interestingly, to circus Salamonsky was not considered a spectacular place for children. Salamonsky first realized that children were a wonderful audience for the circus and that it is possible to earn not bad. He wrote a petition for permission to give the morning presentation (e.g. morning), saying that the program will adapt to the child's perception. Circus every Sunday gave children's performances. For Christmas arranged Christmas tree with dances and dancing, after which the children received gifts. Especially for children Salamonsky put the children's ballets and pantomimes. One of them, "Fairy doll", was released in 1895 and was very popular for many years.
In addition to circus performances, the circus was used for displaying the panoramas. For example, there was exhibited panoramas Jan Joints "Calvary" and "quo Vadis". The show has been visited Leo Tolstoy and Pavel Florensky.
In 1919, with the advent of Soviet power, the circus was nationalized and became the first Soviet state circus. Ever worked famous clowns Dmitry Alferov, Pencil, Boris Vyatkin, Leonid, cuxo, Oleg Popov, Yuri Nikulin and Mikhail Shuydin, Leonid Yengibarov, Anatoly Latyshev. For many years the permanent circus Ringmaster (Ringmaster) worked Alexander Bush, which is still considered one of the best in their profession. Important role in the production of many programmes was played by Arnold G. Arnold and mark Solomonovich Mestechkin working as the Director of the circus.
In 1985, the circus was closed for capital reconstruction and after it was opened in 1989. The money for the reconstruction of the then Director of the circus Yuri Nikulin was able to with the help of Nikolai Ryzhkov. In December 1996, the circus was named "Moscow circus of Nikulin on Tsvetnoy Boulevard".