Nikolai Burlyayev
Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (born 3 August 1946) is a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and politician from Moscow. He is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood. He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska in Andrei Rublev.
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Nikolai Burlyayev

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- Born
- 3 August 1946
- Birthplace
- Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
- Spouse
- * Inga Shatova
- Education
- * Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute
- Occupation
- * actor
- Full name
- Николай Петрович Бурляев.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Known for
- Poshekhonskaya starina.
- Honours
- Order of Honour, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Lenin Komsomol Prize, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Medal For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms and Order of the Holy Passion Bearer Saint Nicholas II.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev (born 3 August 1946) is a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and politician from Moscow. He is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood. He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska in Andrei Rublev.
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Nikolai Burlyayev (born 1946) is an actor, film director and film screenwriter, among other activities, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The actor was born Николай Петрович Бурляев in Moscow.
Nikolai Burlyayev was educated at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The actor held the position of member of the State Duma.
Among the works is Poshekhonskaya starina. Languages used include Russian. Honours include Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Lenin Komsomol Prize and Order of Honour, among others.
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Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
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People's Artist of the Russian Federation
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Russia
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Biography
Biography
He was elected to the State Duma in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
Nikolai Burlyayev studied at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The recorded working language is Russian. Positions recorded include member of the State Duma. Works named in the authority record are Poshekhonskaya starina. Distinctions recorded are Order of Honour, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Lenin Komsomol Prize and Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Key facts
Key facts
• Honorific Suffix — MP • Office — Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) • Term Start — 12 October 2021 • Born — 3 August 1946 • Birthplace — Moscow, RSFSR, USSR • Party — A Just Russia - For Truth • Spouse — * Inga Shatova • Father — Pyotr Diomidovich Burlyayev • Mother — Tatyana Aleksandrovna Mikhailova • Children — * 5 (Ivan Burlyaev • Maria • Georgy • Ilya • Daria) • Blank1 — Religion • Data1 — Russian Orthodox • Education — * Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute • All-Union State Institute of Cinematography • Occupation — * actor • director
Biography
Biography
Burlyayev majored in acting at the Shchukin theater school in Moscow, graduating in 1967. Burlyayev is a graduate of the Film Directors’ Faculty of VGIK, where he studied under Mikhail Romm and Lev Kulidzhanov. He graduated in 1975. Burlyayev's film acting debut was the lead in Andrei Konchalovsky's short film The Boy and the Dove (1960). Burliaev played the teacher with a gambling habit Aleksei Ivanovich in Aleksei Batalov's screen version of Dostoevsky's The Gambler (1972) and Evgeni in Mikhail Shveitser's Little Tragedies (1979, TV, from Aleksandr Pushkin). He also played supporting parts in Petr Todorovski's Frontline Romance (1983) and in Natalia Bondarchuk's dilogy Bambi's Childhood (1985) and Bambi’s Youth (1986). His later films include Wartime Romance (1983) and Lermontov (1986), where he played the lead. Since 1991, Burlyayev has been the founder and director of the annual Zolotoi Vityaz (Golden Knight) Moscow Film Festival of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples, and since 1996 he has been the founder and chairman of the International Association of Cinematographers of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples. In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Burlyayev emphasizes that he is Orthodox, repeatedly sharply expressed his negative attitude towards people with non-traditional sexual orientation, calls himself a homophobe. He was married to Natalya Bondarchuk, and is thus the son-in-law of Sergei Bondarchuk and Inna Makarova.
Sanctions
Sanctions
He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War. On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Filmography
Filmography
• 1961: The Boy and the Dove as Boy • 1961: Judgment of the Mad as Sam Hagger • 1962: Ivan's Childhood as Ivan • 1962: No Fear, No Blame as Yura Sorokin • 1963: Introduction to Life as Oleg • 1964: The Blizzard as Lancer • 1966: Hero of Our Time as Blind man • 1966: Andrei Rublev as Boriska • 1966: Boy & Girl as Boy • 1968: Two Comrades Were Serving as Sergei Lukashevich • 1969: Mama Married as Boris Golubev • 1969: Family Happiness as Ivan Shchupaltsev • 1969: Not Under the Jurisdiction as Seryozha's voice (role played by Vladimir Kuznetsov) • 1971: Telegram as Gleb, Zina's son • 1974: Under en steinhimmel as Lyosha Vasilyev • 1974: Take Aim as Fedya • 1974: Ivan and Marya as Marquis • 1979: A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov as Olga's visitor • 1979: Little Tragedies as Alber, young baron • 1983: Wartime Romance as Aleksandr Netuzhilin • 1984: Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed as Tvorogov • 1985: Trial on the Road as Young policeman (filmed in 1970) • 1985: Bambi's Childhood as Adolescent Bambi • 1986: Lermontov as Mikhail Lermontov/Nikolai Gogol (also director) • 1994: The Master and Margarita as Yeshua Ha-Notsri • 1995: What a Wonderful Game as Mikhail Mikhailovich • 2008: Admiral as Nicholas II of Russia
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Identity and overview
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Origins and background
Origins and background
The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1946 at Moscow. Institutional cataloguing adds that nikolai Burlyayev is recorded at birth as Николай Петрович Бурляев.
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- 1.Peter Rollberg. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. 125–126. 2009. 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- 2.Почётное звание присвоено указом Президента России № 1669 от 11 декабря 1996 года
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- 4.Деятели культуры России — в поддержку позиции Президента по Украине и Крыму
- 5.Анастасия Гусенцова. Президент "Золотого Витязя" рассказал омичам о профессии, гомофобии и Хабенском. РИА Омскпресс. 2012-05-28.
- 6.Олег Дусаев. Гей-славяне. The New Times. 2008-02-04.
- 7.CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK.
- 8.U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO. U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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