Kobelkoff, Freak show empresario pictured with his family. Nikolai Wassiljewittsch Kobelkoff (1851 - 1933) was born in Wossnesensk, Siberia, Russia. While exhibiting in Austria in 1875, he met Anna Wilfert, a Viennese woman - their public wedding took place in Budapest the same year and they went on to have six children (pictured). With the money he'd accumulated over the years, Kobelkoff was able to buy his own amusement park at Prater, Austria's Coney Island.