Background
ZAYTSEV, Ivan was born in 1863.
ZAYTSEV, Ivan was born in 1863.
1870 tumbler with Ginne Circus, Moscow. Then acrobat, sword-swallower and ventriloquist at various circuses. From 1890’s gave puppet shows in show-booths, country fairs and town squares.
Made his own puppets, including some mechanical ones. 1932, together with his partner Anno Domini Triganova, began to perform at Centr Puppet Theater, but here too he used only his own puppets and staged such traditional shows as “The Comedy of Petrushka” and “The Circus”.