Leonid Dyachkov

Leonid Dyachkov

ACTOR

Leonid Dyachkov was a Russian film and stage actor best known as surgeon Petr in You and Me (1971) by director Larisa Shepitko. He was born in 1939, in Leningrad, and survived the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, as a child. From 1957 to 1961 he studied acting under Boris Zon at Leningrad State Institute of Theatre and Film, graduating in 1961 as actor. From 1961 to 1985 Dyachkov was a member of the troupe at Lensoveta Theatre in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Russia. There his stage partners were such actors as Alisa Freyndlikh, Igor Vladimirov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Valentina Ulik, Larisa Luppian, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Vladimir Kuzin, Sergey Migitsko, Leyla Kirakosian, Dmitri Barkov, Irina Mazurkevich, Anatoliy Ravikovich, Mikhail Devyatkin, Anna Aleksahina, Efim Kamenetsky, Petr Shelokhonov and other notable actors. Dyachkov gave his most memorable stage performances as Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment" adaptation from the eponymous novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and as Ch
  • Where was
    Leonid Dyachkov born?

    Leonid Dyachkov was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]


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