Kutateladze 's parents divorced when he was four , and he was raised by his mother , Aleksandra Vladimirovna , an obstetric nurse . His father , Semen Samsonovich , had been a nobleman ; he was before the Great October Revolution a student at Petrograd University and then an army officer . He was arrested in 1937 and died in a camp near Novosibirsk . Following the divorce , Kutateladze and his mother lived for a few years in Georgia , returning in 1922 to Petrograd
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