ЦИРКОВІ ВИСТАВИ У ЛЬВОВІ ТА ЧЕРНІВЦЯХ 1860-х рр.
THE CIRCUS PERFORMANCES IN LVIV AND CHERNIVTSI IN THE 1860S.

Summary/Abstract: The Purpose of the article is to identify the main trends in the development of the Circus arts and the Circus business in the 1860s. and to define the influence of political and economic factors in Bukovina and in Eastern Galicia on them. The Methodology is to use the historical, historical-comparative, biographical methods to maximize the description of the functioning of the Circus during the period of the 1860s. in the Western Ukrainian lands. The Scientific Novelty. The author for the first time ever opens the unknown pages of the history of the Circus and Acrobatic performances in the two main cultural centers of the Western Ukrainian lands at the time that they were a part of the Hapsburg Empire - the cities of Lviv and Chernivtsi. As part of the study, the author has discovered, systematized, translated and used the materials from the German, Polish and Ruthenian press of the 1860s, as well as circus posters from the libraries of Poland (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Austria (Austrian National Library) and a number of US university libraries, which are being deployed into scientific circulation for the first time.

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