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Three universities in Russia offer honours programmes in magic. American magician David Copperfield has been his inspiration, Mr.
Black says, but his parents were apprehensive when he opted for an Honours degree in magic from the Circus University in Saratov, Russia. He says, “They realised its potential only after I started buying property and secured wealth.”Saratov was home to the pioneering Nikitin Brothers, ‘fathers of the Russian magic show’. Now, Mr.
Black says, he would rather join another troupe than let his own become a part of “corporate culture”. more-in“You have not witnessed my kind of magic in India before,” says the globe-trotting Russia-born magician Alex Black, now on a visit to Chennai..