High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov (Russian: Евгений Валерианович Самойлов) (16 April 1912, St. Petersburg — 17 February 2006, Moscow) was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People`s Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is the father of Tatiana Samoilova.