Actors from Saint Petersburg: Petr Shelokhonov, Mikhail Savoyarov, George Sanders, Anton Yelchin, Gregory Gaye, Lila Kedrova, Oleg Basilashvili

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Petr Shelokhonov, Mikhail Savoyarov, George Sanders, Anton Yelchin, Gregory Gaye, Lila Kedrova, Oleg Basilashvili, Natalia Makarova, Igor Dmitriev, Andrey Myagkov, Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov, Richard Marner, Alisa Freindlich, Georgiy Zhzhonov, Mischa Auer, Oksana Akinshina, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Tatiana Doronina, Victoria Haralabidou, Aleksandr Galibin, Kseniya Rappoport, Tatiana Samoilova, Vladimir Garin, Ida Orloff, Tamara Makarova, Marina Neyolova. Excerpt: Petr Illarionovich Shelokhonov, (Russian: , Belarusian: , Ukrainian: in English also spelled Pyotr or Peter; 15 August 1929 - 15 September 1999) was a Russian actor and director, designated Honorable Actor of Russia (1979). Petr Shelokhonov was born in 1929, in Belarus, then a part of the Soviet Union; Peter Larionovich Shelokhonov (also known as Peter, Pyotr, or Petro Larionovich Schelochonovich in Belarusian, Polish, Yiddish and Ukrainian). His ancestors came from Ukraine, from Lithuania and from Poland. His father, Larion (Illarion) Titovich, practiced veterinary medicine at a horse farm, where his grandfather, Tito Shelohonovich, was also a farmer. Petr rode horseback during his childhood; he studied veterinary medicine under his father's tutelage, spending hours researching cells and tissues using his father's microscope. Petr Shelokhonov was destined to practice veterinary medicine, like his father, but his fate was changed by war. Petr Shelokhonov survived the Nazi occupation during World War II. Belarus was swiftly occupied by Hitler's troops. One terrible night his home was totally demolished by air bombing, he miraculously escaped the death by running away barefoot. He then witnessed the fire and destruction of the entire village when the Nazi tanks leveled the remains of his house, then ruined his school and the horse farm. He tried to find his relati...