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Buffoons made special artels, or ' bands ', and wandered, showing the art, on cities and villages. They lived in separate settlements (their names have remained: ' Skomorohovo ', etc.), in Novgorod they occupied the whole streets. The first carriers in Russia ' actor's ' arts - buffoons, these jokers-merry fellows, were dushoju all celebratory meetings, especially a Christmas-tide, a pancake week, weddings. Some buffoons served at boyars and princes, singing of military feats and affairs of our ancestors. It is known, that buffoons amused Ivan's tsars IV and Alexey Mihajlovicha, in 1571 some circus actors-buffoons were are taken in court staff. In 1634 buffoon Peter Ivan-Gorodets carried before the tsar of a log, in 1637-1638 buffoons-'metalniki ' acted, i.e. Jumpers Makar and Ivan Andreevy, in 1619 rjazanets Grigory Ivanov has shown for the first time the trained lion.

Buffoons played dialogical scenes in which one pretended to be silly or deaf and muddled questions of the partner. Are that, for example, Foma and Erema which have fished in a boat without a bottom, sank, and could not sink, bought canvases, have gone to Rostov, have exchanged them on porosjachi tails, have sown a rye, and breads have not ascended, they a plough and a harrow - in fire, and from an arable land run. However these muzhiks were not such silly as it was represented in the beginning. They ' to themselves on mind ' and a foolish mask put on that it was easier to deceive the ill-wishers, to argue with the mighty of this world.