Stephan was born to a blacksmith family in Voronezh. His parents worked at the Voronezh hippodrome where his father was one of the farriers contracted by the private company that owned the hippodrome. He was the second child from his parents, Stephan having an older sibling called Hana. They grew up within the old soviet tower blocks, the area he lived in being rather rough and unruly. Despite this Stephan's father raised him and his sister very  well and they stayed far from trouble, attending school and joining the boy scouts. Being outside of the city was a sense of freedom for young Pyotr, no more dingy and disgusting side alleys or thugs drunk on vodka harassing Stephan.

In his teenage years, Stephan stuck with the boy scouts but spent more time out of school now helping his father at the hippodrome and stud farms, attending to the vast amount of horses that needed their shoes changed. As the years went past, he attended boy scouts less and less and eventually had to quit when his father became ill. At the age of 17 Stephan was essentially doing his father’s job by his own and was trying to provide for the rest of his family. His sister had moved away attending a university in Moscow and it was unlikely she would return after finding a rich Russian oligarch. Life had become stale and Stephan didn’t want to end up like this forever. In early 2018, Stephan decided to leave the Hippodrome and join the army as a career soldier. His father pleaded with him to stay and look after the farrier business but Stephan refused and was set on completing his patriotic duty.