Lida Goulesco

Lida Goulesco. Actress: Die Drehscheibe. Lida Goulecso, born in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1917, was a Romanian Tzigani vocalist and performer. Her father, Ivan Timofeevich Goulesco, was a equilibristic fiddler, a favourite musician of the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov. After the revolution the family fled to Constantinople and later they re-settled in Paris. At 17, Lida Goulecso made her debut as a Café-singer/dancer and...