Editing Pyotr Masherov (section)

===Birth===
[[File:Piotr-masherov-i-brat-pavel.jpg|thumb|left|Masherov (on left) with his brother Pavel, 1930s.|217x217px]]
Pyotr Mironovich Mashero was born on 26 February 1919 in the village of Shirki, [[Sennensky Uyezd]], in the [[Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia]]. According to family legend his great-grandfather was a soldier in the army of [[Napoleon]] who settled in modern-day Belarus rather than returning to France.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dovnar-Zapolsky|first=Andrey|date=20 February 2008|title=Did Masherov have French ancestors?|url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/24053.4/104508/|access-date=21 July 2021|website=Komsomolskaya Pravda}}</ref> Pyotr's father was Miron Vasilyevich Mashero<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 December 2016|title=Victims of Political Terror in the USSR|url=http://lists.memo.ru/d22/f168.htm|access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> and his mother was Daria Petrovna Lyakhovskaya. Pyotr had seven siblings, of whom four survived to adulthood.