Peeter Volkonski
Prince Peeter Volkonski (born 12 September 1954 in Tallinn) is an Estonian rock-musician, composer, actor, and theatre director.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Ancestry
- 3 Decorations
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Biography
He became famous with the punk band Propeller, founded in 1978.
In 2015 Volkonski was Free Party's candidate in the Tartu cons*uency for Estonian parliamentary election. He received 916 votes, which was not enough for a seat in the parliament.
Ancestry
Peeter Volkonski's paternal ancestry comes from the Russian noble Volkonsky family; his father was the Russian composer and harpsichordist Prince Andrei Volkonsky. His paternal grandfather was the noted Russian opera baritone Prince Mikhail Volkonsky and his great-great-great-grandfather was Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky, thus, being a descendant of the princely Rurikid dynasty.
His maternal ancestry is Estonian; his mother is the Estonian translator and writer Helvi Jürisson, who is a noted poet and author of children's literature.
Decorations
- 2001 Fifth Cl* Order of the White Star of the Republic of Estonia.
References
External links
- Official website
- Peeter Volkonski at IMDb
- Potpourri Volkonski/Propeller https://web.archive.org/web/20110720131601/http://www.volk.ee/24345.mp3