A circus operating in the area of Minsk, Germany in the late 1940s. In Russian: Цирк другого [Phonetically: Tsirk druh-grova]. It has been linked to The Calliope via a photograph on Page 43 of Gregory Petry’s Freaks and Followers: Circuses in the 1940s. The photograph shows the calliope
…a reproduction of an old black-and-white photograph: a small group of carnival workers: a contortionist, a fire-eater, two strong-men, a ringmaster and an organist sitting behind a calliope. labelled as being from 1948 and taken in Minsk, Russia. The ringmaster and organist are labeled Gregor Osinov and Nikolai Denikin.
Jonathan Sims
Known Members
- Gregor Osinov – Ringmaster
- Nikolai Denikin – Organist