Yul Brynner is remembered in Hollywood for such iconic roles as the Siamese king in The King and I, the cold-hearted pharaoh in The Ten Commandments, and as the leader of the heroic gunslingers in The Magnificent Seven. However, the only monument dedicated to him is not in Tinseltown, save for the star on the Walk of Fame—but in his hometown of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920, at his four-story home on 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok, and was of Russian, Swiss-German, Buryat-Mongol,…
