A descendant of Muscovite diplomat Pyotr Potemkin, Grigory was born in the village of Chizhovo near Smolensk into a family of middle-income noble landowners.

From June to September 1946, the head of foreign intelligence ( MGB 1st directorate ), was Lieutenant General Pyotr Kubatkin ( born in 1907 ), when he was replaced by then Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedotov ( born in 1900 ).

Pyotr Grigoryevich Bolotnikov (; born 8 March 1930 ) is a former Soviet athlete, one of the world's best stayers of the early 1960s, winner of 10, 000 m at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Peter Veniaminovich Svidler (; Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler, born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Pyotr Masherov was born as Pyatro Mashera in a village in Vitsebsk region of Belarus and before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 worked as a high school physics and math teacher.

Historians believe that Pyotr Mstislavets was born in a Belarusian town of Mstsislaw.

Petru Chiril Lucinschi ( Russian: Пётр Кириллович Лучинский, Pyotr Kirillovich Luchinsky ; Ukrainian: Петро Кирилович Лучинський, Petro Kyrylovych Luchynsky ) was born on January 27, 1940 in Rădulenii Vechi village, Soroca County, Romania ( now Floreşti district ).

* Andrei Konchalovsky ( born 1937 )-an acclaimed Russian film writer and director, grandson of Pyotr.

Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1776.

* Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian of Baltic German ancestry, one of the leaders of the counterrevolution in Russia, born in Lithuania.

Pyotr was born in the Vladikavkaz into a well-known and distinguished family.

Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov (; born 14 April 1951 ) is a Russian rock musician, songwriter and actor, former frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu.

A Ukrainian by birth, Pyotr Velichkovsky was born in Poltava, where his father, Ivan, was a priest.

Pyotr Kakhovsky was born in Smolensk Governorate in 1797.

* 1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter ( d. 1956 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

* Pyotr Kuznetsov ( 1964 ), a Russian religious leader

By the time of Trotsky's arrival, the St. Petersburg Soviet was already functioning headed by Khrustalyov-Nosar ( Georgy Nosar, alias Pyotr Khrustalyov ), a compromise figure, and proved to be very popular with the workers in spite of the Bolsheviks ' original opposition.

* Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy ( 1645 – 1729 ),

* Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy ( 1769 – 1844 ), military commander and diplomat

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G, " Mozartiana " ( 1887 ), as a tribute to Mozart.

The cast included Bogomir Korsov ( Boris ), Nadezhda Salina ( Fyodor ), Aleksandra Karatayeva ( Kseniya ), O. Pavlova ( Nurse ), Anton Bartsal ( Shuysky ), Pyotr Figurov ( Shchelkalov ), Ivan Butenko ( Pimen ), Lavrentiy Donskoy ( Pretender ), Mariya Klimentova ( Marina ), Pavel Borisov ( Rangoni ), Vladimir Streletsky ( Varlaam ), Mikhail Mikhaylov ( Misail ), Vera Gnucheva ( Innkeeper ), and Aleksandr Dodonov ( Boyar-in-attendance ).

* Pyotr Masherov, secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union

Pyotr Mironovich Masherov (; ;-October 4, 1980 ) was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.

In 1965 after holding some key positions in Belarusian regions and in Minsk Pyotr Masherov became the first secretary of the Communist party in Belarus.

When the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society was created in 1936, its football team featured the best players of Kazanka, and a number of strong Soviet footballers of that time such as Valentin Granatkin, Nikolay llyin, Alexey Sokolov, Pyotr Terenkov, Mikhail Zhukov, llya Gvozdkov, Ivan Andreev.

* 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

* 1892 – premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.

* 1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist ( d. 1912 )

* 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet astronaut

* 1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1866 – Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet ( b. 1792 )

After the success of the uprising on 7 – 8 November, Trotsky led the efforts to repel a counter-attack by Cossacks under General Pyotr Krasnov and other troops still loyal to the overthrown Provisional Government at Gatchina.

* 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( d. 1893 )

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

* 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.

* 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician ( b. 1862 )

* April 8 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1894 )

* November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.