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Nikolai Burlyayev | |
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| Николай Бурляев | |
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| Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| Assumed office 12 October 2021 | |
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| Born | (1946-08-03)3 August 1946 (age 79) |
| Political party | A Just Russia - For Truth |
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| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev[a] (Russian:Николай Петрович Бурляев; born 3 August 1946) is aSoviet andRussian actor, film director and politician fromMoscow.[1] Born into a family of actors, Burlyayev started his career in film and theatre when he was still a child. He is best known for his title role inAndrei Tarkovsky'sIvan's Childhood. He worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska inAndrei Rublev.[2]
He was elected to theState Duma in the2021 parliamentary elections.
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 underMikhail Romm andLev Kulidzhanov.[3] He graduated in 1975. Burlyayev's film acting debut was the lead in Andrei Konchalovsky's short filmThe Boy and the Dove (1960). Burliaev played the teacher with a gambling habit Aleksei Ivanovich in Aleksei Batalov's screen version of Dostoevsky'sThe Gambler (1972) and Evgeni in Mikhail Shveitser'sLittle Tragedies (1979, TV, from Aleksandr Pushkin). He also played supporting parts in Petr Todorovski'sFrontline Romance (1983) and in Natalia Bondarchuk's dilogyBambi's Childhood (1985) andBambi’s Youth (1986). His later films includeWartime Romance (1983) andLermontov (1986), where he played the lead.
Since 1991, Burlyayev has been the founder and director of the annualZolotoi 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.[4]
In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of RussiaVladimir Putin on Russia'smilitary intervention in Ukraine.[5] Burlyayev emphasizes that he isOrthodox, repeatedly sharply expressed his negative attitude towards people with non-traditional sexual orientation, calls himself ahomophobe.[3][6]
He was married toNatalya Bondarchuk, and is thus the son-in-law ofSergei Bondarchuk andInna Makarova.
He was sanctioned by theUK government in 2022 in relation to theRusso-Ukrainian War.[7]
On 24 March 2022, the United States Treasury sanctioned him in response to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
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