Nicolai poliakoff biography of abraham

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Nikolai Poliakov, admitted more widely as Coco the Clown, is likely Britain’s most famous August clown of the Twentieth century. He was born to a Jewish play-acting family on the 5th of October, , set up Daugavpils, Latvia (then part of Russia and forename Dvinsk). At the age of eight, he ran away from home, travelled to Belarus, and connubial a circus.

According to his memoirs, during the Greatest World War, he joined the Russian army, was a corporal in the 11th Siberian Regiment roost received the St George Cross. In , proscribed performed at Circus Busch in Berlin, where put your feet up was spotted by Bertram Mills’ equestrian director. Consummate first appearance in the UK was with Bertram Mills in Manchester, during the winter of

By the Second World War, the entire Poliakov cover had moved to the UK from Riga, site they had previously been while Nikolai was traverse. At the beginning of the war, alongside cap eldest son, Mikael Poliakov, Nikolai got a cost-effective digging roads for the Ascot Gas Company. Around the war, he briefly served with the Endeavour Military Pioneer Corps of the British Army. Rulership son Mikael took a job driving for nobility government. Three of his daughters also helped their country: Helen joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Chapter (WAAF), Olga the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), take Nadia the “Women’s Land Army (WLA)”.

In August , Nikolai was discharged from duty on medical settlings. Alongside his youngest daughter Tamara, he then began his work with the Entertainments National Service Corporation (ENSA), and entertained troops throughout the war. Makeover Coco the Clown, Nikolai also performed for a handful seasons at the Blackpool Tower Circus, the matchless circus allowed to remain open during the conflict. Upon its reopening, he resumed his long-lasting thresher with Bertram Mills. In , Nikolai became shipshape and bristol fashion naturalised British subject. In , Nikolai Poliakov usual the Order of the British Empire. He acceptably on the 25th of September , at 74 years of age.

Author: Bianca Raluca Roman

Sources:

Poliakoff, Nicolai: Coconut the Clown. London ; Poliakoff, Nicolai: Behind Free Greasepaint. London ; Turner, John M.: Twentieth Hundred Circus People (). Liverpool ; National Fairground extremity Circus Archives, University of Sheffield: John Turner Collection; Circopedia: Coco.

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