Honored Artist of Russia Petr Petrovich Zaichenko is a hereditary, tenth-generation Cossack, which, of course, is very proud of. His creative biography is replete with domestic and foreign film works and has been repeatedly awarded with various national and international awards.
The popular actor of theater and cinema - Petr Petrovich Zaichenko - undoubtedly enters the galaxy of domestic stars, being a very talented and original artist. He was born in the midst of World War II by a lucky chance due to the fact that his father arrived on a visit home in 1942 as a front-line hero.
Biography and career of Petr Petrovich Zaichenko
On April 1, 1943, the future idol of millions of fans was born in the Cossack village of Kaysatskoye. Interestingly, the original newborn boy was called Anatoly, but the joy of birth in the family was overshadowed by the tragic news from the front about the death of his father. Then the grandfather decided to immortalize the name of his beloved son in Zaichenko Jr. Thus, our hero became Peter Petrovich.
In shaping Petya’s personality, the decisive role was played by Grandfather Pantelei Ivanovich, who was an authoritative person in the entire Cossack district. Their family was quite prosperous by local standards, and therefore the young man had the opportunity to develop creatively and read a lot. In the near future, he showed an iron will and insisted on becoming an artist instead of the teaching career that his grandfather prophesied to him.
After graduating from high school, Zaichenko entered the Volgograd cultural enlightenment school, which, upon completion of training, was replaced by the I. Slonov Saratov Theater School. In 1971, he graduated with honors from his university and was assigned to the Volgograd Drama Theater, where he worked for three years. An important part of Peter's work during this period was recitation, which for beginner actors was considered a huge success. He could often be seen on the programs of the Rosconcert and on Leningrad television.
In the "nineties" Petr Zaichenko, being an actor of the Volgograd Philharmonic, was admitted to the troupe of the Cossack Theater, and then to the Youth Theater of the Stanitsa Cossack District.
Zaychenko made his debut in cinema at the age of forty, when he became a rather experienced master of his craft, from Vadim Abdrashitov's painting “Parade of the Planets”. From that moment on, his popularity began to grow rapidly. The next films with his participation were "Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game" and "Armavir". But the talented actor was not going to stop at the national level, and already in 1990, as part of the Soviet-French project, Pavel Lungin's "Taxi Blues" was released, where Petr Zaichenko was shot in tandem with Pyotr Mamonov.
Now he becomes a world-class actor, and he is pleased to be invited to appear in Spain, France, Belgium and Poland. Thus, the crisis of creative activity in the dashing "nineties" did not affect our hero, like most of his colleagues in the creative workshop.
Today in his filmography, these pearls shine with such pearls and series as “Thunderstorm over Russia” (1992), “Krapachuk” (1993), “Russian riot” (2000), “Plot” (2003), “Taras Bulba” (2009), "Siberia. Monamur" (2011), "Maryina Roscha" (2013), "Sofia" (2016) and others.
