Oleg Basilashvili
Soviet and Russian actor
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili (born 26 September 1934) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
Biography
Childhood
He was born to a family of mixed Russian, Polish, and Georgian origin. He is half Russian.
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili was born on 26 September 1934 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. His father, named Valerian Basilashvili, was a director of the Moscow Polytechnical College. His mother, named Irina Ilyinskaya, was a teacher of linguistics.
His father made up a humorous story that his grandfather had once arrested a dangerous criminal named Dzhugashvili, who was really Joseph Stalin. In reality Basilashvili's maternal grandfather was a Russian Orthodox priest and an architect, who participated in the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. During World War II, young Oleg Basilashvili was evacuated from Moscow to the Transcaucasian Republic of Georgia.
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