19 Facts About Petr Shelokhonov

Petr Shelokhonov was born in 1929, in Wilno Voivodeship, then a part of Poland; Petr Larionovich Shelokhonov.

Petr Shelokhonov's ancestors originated from Ukraine, from Baltic states, and from Poland.

Petr Shelokhonov's father, Larion Titovich Shelokhonov, practiced veterinary medicine and was living at a horse farm, where his grandfather, Tito Shelohonovich, was a farmer.

Petr Shelokhonov was severely wounded in the forehead but he survived and dug a hole in the ground, to hide from Nazi police patrols during the autumn of 1941.

In 1942, while surviving in the woods with partisans, Petr Shelokhonov had his first acting experience.

Petr Shelokhonov's performances helped lift their spirits in a time when they were struggling to survive.

In 1945, Petr Shelokhonov became a piano student at the Kiev Conservatory of Music, he played the accordion on stage, albeit his plan was to become an actor in Leningrad.

In 1949, Petr Shelokhonov was conscripted in the Soviet Armed Forces in Leningrad, and then he served in the Red Navy for five years.

In 1954, Petr Shelokhonov was discharged from the Red Navy and applied to the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema, but the school refused to accept him because of his scarred face and bad anti-soviet record.

Petr Shelokhonov moved to the Siberian city of Irkutsk and studied acting at the Irkutsk drama school, graduating in 1960, as actor.

Petr Shelokhonov was member of the Irkutsk State Drama Theater from 1957 to 1962.

From 1962 to 1968, Petr Shelokhonov worked as an actor and director at the Chekhov Drama Theatre in the city of Taganrog, Russia.

In 1967, for the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Petr Shelokhonov was ordered by the Soviet Communist party to portray Lenin in several productions, an order no one could object in the Soviet Union.

In 1967, Petr Shelokhonov made his TV debut in Moscow appearing in the leading role as Unknown Soldier in the TV movie Steps to the Sun which premiered in the USSR on Soviet Central Television in 1967.

Petr Shelokhonov shone in a range of leading and supporting roles such as Cossack Severian Ulybin in 1971 epic film Dauriya and as spy Sotnikov in the 1969 detective drama Razvyazka.

In 1974 Petr Shelokhonov played the leading role as industrialist Peresada, opposite another Russian film star Natalia Fateeva, in political drama Countermeasure based on real historic events of the Cold War.

In 1993, Petr Shelokhonov directed a stage production of the American play Isabella by Irving A Leitner, about Jewish girl, Isabella Katz Leitner, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1996, Petr Shelokhonov was cast by Marion Dougherty to perform opposite Sophie Marceau, James Fox, and Sean Bean in Anna Karenina by director Bernard Rose.

Petr Shelokhonov died in 1999 and was laid to rest in St Petersburg, Russia.