1. Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev is a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and apparatchik.
11 Facts About Nikolai Burlyayev
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Nikolai Burlyayev is best known for his title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood.
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Nikolai Burlyayev worked with Tarkovsky again four years later, as Boriska in Andrei Rublev.
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Nikolai Burlyayev was elected to the State Duma in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
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Nikolai Burlyayev majored in acting at the Shchukin theater school in Moscow, graduating in 1967.
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Nikolai Burlyayev is a graduate of the Film Directors' Faculty of VGIK, where he studied under Mikhail Romm and Lev Kulidzhanov.
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Nikolai Burlyayev's film acting debut was the lead in Andrei Konchalovsky's short film The Boy and the Dove.
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Nikolai Burlyayev played supporting parts in Petr Todorovski's Frontline Romance and in Natalia Bondarchuk's dilogy Bambi's Childhood and Bambi's Youth.
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Since 1991, Nikolai Burlyayev has been the founder and director of the annual Zolotoi Vityaz 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.
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Nikolai Burlyayev was married to Natalya Bondarchuk, and is thus the son-in-law of Sergei Bondarchuk and Inna Makarova.
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Nikolai Burlyayev was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.