Author: Viktor Sarancha
At the end of 1914, the Andro Ciniselli circus began its work on the Red Square of Kremenchug. On the eve of the new year 1915, posters announced the performance of the Japanese court troupe Yamosaki-san, “performing a cliff under the dome of the circus.” In addition, “the invincible lady-Hercules will hold an orchestra playing marches on her chest.”
On January 17, 1915, the circus hosted the opening of the international championship in French wrestling, organized by the famous Russian athlete, wrestler and writer, editor-in-chief of the Hercules magazine I.V. Lebedev (“Uncle Vanya”).
The championship was attended by:
world champion Gersh Rosenthal,
Strenge, Cyclops (Franz Benkowski),
Ibragimov,
Anderson,
Victor Dolgov,
Zbyshko-Tsyganevich,
Manko,
Spool II,
local amateur A.M. Boguslavsky.
After a short break on February 9, the championship resumed with the participation of new wrestlers:
Gotch Wolfson,
Wagner
Kolotina,
Tomsk,
Izbitsky,
Negro Jacques Lewis,
Brodsky,
Arnold
roberti,
Eskakova,
Robert,
Gostinskiy.
The organizer of this championship was E. Schloss.
Anthropometric data of Stanislav Zbyshko-Tsyganevich related to 1901 (age – 21 years): height – 175 cm; weight – 120 kg; neck – 50 cm; chest – 127-135 cm; biceps – 52 cm; forearm – 40 cm; thigh – 73 cm.
In the photo I.V. Lebedev (Uncle Vanya), Spool, Kolotin, Cyclops (Benkovsky), Zbyshko-Tsyganevich.
