Born in 1939 to a German-Swedish father who fled Białystok and a Polish mother who later married a Soviet officer, he grew up in Arkhangelsk under the name Lubaszenko before discovering his paternal lineage at eighteen and adopting the hyphenated surname in 1991. After an early stint studying medicine, he completed his theatrical training at the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Krakó…
