Pavel Borisovich Luspekaev was born on April 20, 1927, in Lugansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Luhansk, Ukraine). His Armenian-born father, Boris Luspekaev, worked as a butcher, and his mother was a Russian Don Cossack. Young Luspekaev grew up in a trilingual environment and his mastery of spoken tongues and dialects became an asset to his acting talent, albeit it also was later criticized by some hard-line Soviet critics.At the beginning of the Second World War young Luspekaev was evacuated ...[Read Story]