Ciniselli Circus
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Take a look at the pink-coloured building with a barely-visible dome, and a main entrance like a giant gateau, sitting right on the right-hand Fontanka Embankment. It’s the Ciniselli Circus, the main one in St Petersburg.
Prior to the latter-C19th the “northern capital” didn’t have any permanent circus building – temporary wooden structures had been used. The idea to build a fully-fledged full-time Circus came from Italian circus-master Gaetano Ciniselli.
Cineselli’s was the first purpose-built Circus in Russia. Kenel’s design rose to the occasion – the first circus dome in the world built entirely without internal columns or supports. Seats were arranged by price – the best seats near the arena, and the cheap seats in the balconies above. And each seating-sector had its own separate entrance.
The Ciniselli Circus is the setting for a large section of Angela Carter’s 1984 award-winning novel “Nights At The Circus”. The fictional aerealiste “Fevvers” – who claims to have real wings – makes a star appearance in St Petersburg… before fleeing the amorous advances of a Grand Duke by taking the Trans-Siberian Express. The novel was later staged as a play.
File:Spb 06-2012 Circus commons.wikimedia.org
Автор:A.Savin commons.wikimedia.org
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Prior to the latter-C19th the “northern capital” didn’t have any permanent circus building – temporary wooden structures had been used. The idea to build a fully-fledged full-time Circus came from Italian circus-master Gaetano Ciniselli.
Cineselli’s was the first purpose-built Circus in Russia. Kenel’s design rose to the occasion – the first circus dome in the world built entirely without internal columns or supports. Seats were arranged by price – the best seats near the arena, and the cheap seats in the balconies above. And each seating-sector had its own separate entrance.
The Ciniselli Circus is the setting for a large section of Angela Carter’s 1984 award-winning novel “Nights At The Circus”. The fictional aerealiste “Fevvers” – who claims to have real wings – makes a star appearance in St Petersburg… before fleeing the amorous advances of a Grand Duke by taking the Trans-Siberian Express. The novel was later staged as a play.
File:Spb 06-2012 Circus commons.wikimedia.org
Автор:A.Savin commons.wikimedia.org
Лицензия:creativecommons.org
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