Talk:Petr Shelokhonov

message: His farther had a cousin, named Georgy Akimovich Shelakhov (1899-1987). Georgy Shelakhov survived the great terror under Joseph Stalin. During the WWII he was the Deputy Chief of Staff in the 1st Red Banner Army, stationed in Moscow and moved a lot during the war. After the war, in 1945 he was treated unfavourably by the Soviet leadership and was sent to Siberia, there he served as a Deputy Chief of Staff 1st Far Eastern Front. He retired in the 1960s. Petr Shelokhonov met him in the 1970s and they maintained communication, until General Shelakhov's death in 1987.Mouse2mouse 21:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Petr Shelokhonov's grandfather, Tito Shelokhonovich, had a brother, Akim Shelokhonovich whose son, Georgi Akimovich (Гоша), changed his name from Shelokhonovich to Shelakhov during the 1930s (many people changed their names for reasons of personal safety). He made a career during WWII rising to Maj. General in 1945; then he was sent on a risky mission to Kharbin, China, where Japanese experimented with bacteriological weapons . On August 18, 1945, Gen. Shelakhov declared ultimatum  to General H. Hata, Chief of Staff Kwantung Army, then Marshal Vasilevsky accepted capitulation of Japanese in China. Petr Shelokhonov met his uncle in the 1970s, when Gen. Georgi Shelakhov was writing memoirs in his retirement (he did not publish his memoirs until the late 1960s). Steveshelokhonov 08:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shelah (Шелах) is the grandson of Shem, and great-grandson of biblical Noah, Shelakhov (сын Шелахa) means Shelah's son (in Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian and Belrusian). Steveshelokhonov 08:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shelokhonov and his ancestry 

message: We are all trying to improve on the multi-language issue in order to achieve a better match between English and Russian versions of this article, as a start. We are also working on further improvements and editing of this biography in order to achieve a match between Russian, English, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and other translations of his article. 
This English article was only a 20% match with its Russian original in May and June, but in early July it was already about a 70% match with the Russian original, and we are gradually improving on small discrepancies in order to close the gap. I believe that improvements may be done through discussion and creative editing, like a thoughtful surgery, in order to save healthy parts for preservation of the whole. While we all know that no translation or interpretation is absolutely perfect, still it is really nice to come closer.
In Wikipedia multi-language issue is a visible problem, many articles look and read quite different in different languages, as I mentioned in my discussion for St. Petersburg. We are doing the same with several other articles, but it's hard to correct because not enough people understand all various languages involved, including myself. Anyone fluent in several languages, if you could help with this issue that would be great. 
A multi-source and cross-cultural environment is naturally conducive to multiple interpretations and some reasonable contradictions as essential part of its growth, thus inching closer to resemble The Big Reality. Interpretations of reality as well as translation between languages does stimulate human creativity; albeit in this conundrum you cannot make everyone happy, but civility helps.
After this biography becomes better in several languages, I am planning to give more attention to multi-language issues in other articles too. Steveshelokhonov 22:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The English article looks like a parallele to the French one.2606:6000:668C:1300:B155:78C4:3B0F:8779 (talk) 07:09, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: English and Russian articles and the multi-language issue in Wikipedia

message: Dear Wikipedians,
Ich abe etwas Deutsch in der Schule erlente, aber ich spreche English besseres. So I made a first effort translating the English article to Deutsch, using Sherlock translation and adding some of my own corrections. My Deutsch leaves much to be desired, so any help from fellow Wikipedians is highly appreciated. 
Mit freundlichem Gruß, and highest regards, Steveshelokhonov 19:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: English and German articles

message: Petr Shelokhonov, and the culture of hidden treasures behind the official Russian façade. By Fred Andresen, author of "Walking on Ice, An American Businessman in Russia."
What has always intrigued me about Russian culture and history is how under a thousand years of autocracy and dictatorship, such amazing men and women have emerged. There is a painting from Soviet times that illustrates this. Across a bleak land a black paved road stretches straight to the horizon, a dark silhouette of a modern high-rise city. Pushing up through the cracks in this clearly untravelled road are leaves of grass and budding flowers. Those vibrant plants reaching for light through the cracks represent the great writers, poets, composers, painters, filmmakers, and other men and women of the performing arts. We know the names of a many, but there were and are so many more who kept being creative under the pressure from the Soviets, and their humble work kept the culture alive. Petr Shelokhonov was one of them.
On my first trip to the then Soviet Union in 1991, I marveled at these artists in the secret lofts, their crumbling dachas, or just the privacy of the kitchen table, and what they were happily doing in the ruins of the Soviet Union – these budding plants. We know the strife of these champions of freedom. The work of writers and actors got focused attention from the Soviet guardians of their power. I have managed a business in Russia since 1992 and lived there for six years. I have met more than few of these often surviving humble greats. In St. Petersburg in 1996, I walked by a horse-carriage with a woman and other actors in 19th century dress standing about. It was the filming of “Anna Karenina” in which Petr Shelokhonov was cast.
His best known film role was co-starring as Cossack Severian in a three-hour epic film Dauriya. Only a few of his films are available today, while many other works did not survive the turbulent years of Soviet and Russian regimes. 
His acting career started during the Nazi occupation in WWII when he was making parodies of Hitler and the Nazis to lift the spirits of his fellow survivors. After the war he was drafted in the Red Navy and was actor with the Theatre of the Baltic Fleet, then continued acting in Siberia. In many roles he had to play a Soviet officer, or a revolutionary and did so with tongue-in-cheek as he also listened to the opposite side, such as the BBC, Voice of America, and other international sources. It was his love of freedom that led him to take the death-defying chances necessary to assure his acting career, and to create a range of characters marked by truth, depth, and beauty. 
Photographs of his stage roles show a variety of characters displaying nuanced emotions and a remarkable range. We Americans often don’t appreciate the cultural under-structure of the rest of the world. European, Russian, Asian, African, and Mediterranean peoples live with a highly original, rich, and multi-dimensional world of a vertical culture, while many of us in America live in a horizontal culture. We are all immigrants. But in the rest of the world, the centuries of language, geography, religion, and resulting social, political, and economic strains make them who they are. Petr Shelokhonov was surely one of these with a long heritage in Eastern Europe and Russia.FAndresen (talk) 21:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Petr Shelokhonov, and the culture of hidden treasures behind the official Russian façade