Pyotr Glebov; Russian Actor Had Just Won National Award

Pyotr Glebov, 85, a prominent Russian stage and screen actor whose films included “The Youth of Peter the Great.” Just a few days ago, on Glebov’s 85th birthday, President Vladimir Putin awarded him the Merit to the Fatherland award for his contribution to Russian cinema. The actor starred in dozens of stage plays and films, but was best known for playing Grigory Melekhov in the classic Cossack epic “And Quiet Flows the Don.” Other films in which he starred included “The Virgin Land Upturned” and “Baltic Sky.” A graduate of the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio, Glebov was affiliated with Moscow’s Stanislavsky Drama Theater and later the Studio Theater of Cinema Actors. In 1981, he was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union, the highest award given to actors by that country. On Monday in Moscow.