Nikolai Burlyayev

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

He was elected to the State Duma in the 2021 parliamentary elections.

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.

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 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 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