彼得·梅尔库里耶夫,Pyotr Vasilyevich Merkuryev-Meyerhold was born in 1943, in Tomsk province, Siberia, USSR. His father, Vasiliy Merkurev, was a famous Russian film star and stage actor of the St. Petersburg Pushkin (Aleksandrinsky) Theatre. His mother, Irina Vsevolodovna Meyerhold, was the daughter of the legendary director Vsevolod Meyerhold.