Elpasov Mikhail (1915)

Elpasov Mikhail (1915, Riga — ?) — circus performer, illusionist. Completed primary school and three grades of gymnasium. As a child, he dreamed of becoming a theatre set designer. Visiting the circus as a child, he became captivated by the art of conjuring and mastered it independently. From 1935, worked in a summer travelling circus as an acrobat-juggler, and some time later as a conjurer-illusionist. After the Second World War, performed at the Riga State Circus as an illusionist. His assistant in 1940–41 was Golda Merinberg (b. 14.10.1912, Mitau; during the Second World War, deported to the Riga Ghetto; further fate unknown).

The photograph shows a page from the Riga Circus programme, 1941.