Were both Stuart Paton and Ivan Perestiani  Russian film directors?
Ivan Perestiani Ivan Nikolaevich Perestiani (also Ivane, Georgian: ივანე პერესტიანი ; Russian: Иван Николаевич Перестиани ; 13 April [O.S. 1 April] 1870 — 14 May 1959) was a Russian/Soviet film director, script-writer and actor, and People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1949). He was of Kefalonian Greek descent.
Farewell to St. Petersburg (film) Farewell to St. Petersburg Russian: Прощание с Петербургом , "Proshchaniye s Peterburgom " is a 1972 Soviet biopic film directed by Yan Frid. The film is about the Austrian composer Johann Strauss's stay in Russia, his concerts in Pavlovsk in the summer of 1857, and his love towards the Russian aristocrat Olga Smirnitskiy, to whom he dedicated several works.