Gleb Plaksin

Gleb Vasilyevich Plaksin[a] (16 August 1925 – 21 November 2008) was a French-born Soviet and Russian film actor and musician.

His mother Nadezhda Damianovna Plaksina (née Snitko, 1899—1949) (ru) was a Sister of Charity from Saint Petersburg.

[2] Both of his parents took part in the World War I during which Nadezhda Snitko was awarded the Order of St. George of three classes.

[3] Gleb studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and became a professional piano player.

[3] The multilingual teenager fought as a member of the American army after the Allies finally landed in France in 1944.