tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post7470022619680370151..comments2023-10-30T06:50:17.036-04:00Comments on Buckles Blog: #4 StampsBuckleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114738213931098664noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-82684020076318043932017-07-28T07:16:00.099-04:002017-07-28T07:16:00.099-04:00Thanks Robert for the details
A million memmorie...<br /> Thanks Robert for the details<br /><br /> A million memmories come back<br /><br /> But no Roger the 2nd Moscow tour<br /><br /> wasn't nearly the same show<br /><br /> A real letdown from the 1stChic Silberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12354928875443190942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-89254574293166892972017-07-27T22:07:09.348-04:002017-07-27T22:07:09.348-04:00Vsevolad Kherts was the strongman. Russians love ...Vsevolad Kherts was the strongman. Russians love a strongman act and this was the first I ever saw.<br /><br />Filatovs bears would pick the bikes off the floor and ride them.<br /><br />Kiss the juggler was a mentor for the great Ignatov.<br /><br />Volshanki high wire act was out of sight, Tricks like a onehander on the head of bottom man going up an incline were just one in a series of tricks I have not seen before or since.<br /><br />Low bar act was arranged in a square with giant swings on all four bars at once while another walked on the top between their hands,<br /><br />Two man handbalancing was top notch. Cossacks the best ever.<br /><br />One act was standard in my book and that was the strongman's wife did a low wire routine in peasant costume. I was young and may have missed something there,<br /><br />Merle actually played the Russian march on one of his reoords.<br /><br />Popov was just great. I get excited just thinking about that show. As far as I know that it the only time they came over with that particular group. I still have the program.<br /><br />Bob Good<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06862252871706848943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-14914155441338782582017-07-27T21:11:13.854-04:002017-07-27T21:11:13.854-04:00This sounds like the same show I saw in the late &...This sounds like the same show I saw in the late '70s. Russ Darr led the band.<br />Roger Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920466115948257597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-21937265639469716162017-07-26T18:34:18.892-04:002017-07-26T18:34:18.892-04:00Absolutely Robert I had never
seen anything like...<br /> Absolutely Robert I had never<br /><br /> seen anything like it (or since)<br /><br /> Oleg Popov was a fantastic talent<br /><br /> He passed away just last November<br /><br /> These was a juggling strongman<br /><br /> that gave me pause as he threw<br /><br /> heavy brass balls in the air &<br /><br /> caught thm on his neck (ouch)<br /><br /> (Something like Yevesyvold)<br /><br /> I believe this was a cultural<br /><br /> exchange when Art Concello<br /><br /> sent an American contingent to<br /><br /> the USSR (as we knew it then)<br />Chic Silberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12354928875443190942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-52325038734351717732017-07-26T18:24:23.486-04:002017-07-26T18:24:23.486-04:00This show was one of the best I ever saw. I have ...This show was one of the best I ever saw. I have a record of the show and I used to play it over and over. Volshanki wire act, Popov, Kiss with juggling, the list goes on. <br /><br />Other Russian shows came over but I thought this one was really special. Popov was in a class of his own and worked through out the show.<br /><br />Bob GoodAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06862252871706848943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-83523255887487503892017-07-26T15:12:20.532-04:002017-07-26T15:12:20.532-04:00World famous Russian Bear trainer
Valentin Filat...<br /> World famous Russian Bear trainer<br /><br /> Valentin Filatov He had an entire<br /><br /> circus of bear acts He came over<br /><br /> with the 1st Moscow Circus tour<br /><br /> presented by Morris Chalfen in 63<br /><br /> Old (#3) Garden at 49th & 50th<br /><br /> I worked frontlight a few of the<br /><br /> nights filling in for a friend<br /><br /> Never saw horses as fast as the<br /><br /> Cossak Riders at FULL gallop<br /><br /> Tremendous reinforced ring curb<br /><br /> with a great bank of dirt<br />Chic Silberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12354928875443190942noreply@blogger.com