Burlyaev, Nikolai Petrovich

Nikolai Burlyaev was born on August 3, 1946 in Moscow. Nikolai's acting debut took place in the early 1960s, when he starred in the course work of Andrei Konchalovsky " Boy and Dove ." Then Andrei Tarkovsky, on the recommendation of Konchalovsky ^[3], took the young actor into the painting “ Ivan's childhood ”, where Burlyaev played the role of a teenager whom the war deprived of childhood. Recalling those shootings, the actor said that he played not so much himself as "Tarkovsky himself" - his movements, intonations, facial expressions ^[4] . At the Venice Film Festival of 1962, both films featuring Burlyaev received prizes - Golden Lion Mark ”and“ Bronze Lion of St. Mark".

Together with Kolya, Vladimir Shurupov, an actor of the Mossovet Theater , starred in the film “The Boy and the Dove”. The main director of the theater, Yuri Zavadsky, took Nikolai Burlyaev in the play "Leningradsky Prospekt" based on the play by I. Shtok. The main role of Zabrodin in the play was played by Nikolai Mordvinov , and Nikolai Burlyaev was his stage grandson, 14-year-old Vasya Zabrodin. So Nikolai Burlyaev became an actor in the theater ^[5] .

In 1961-1964 he served at the Moscow Academic Theater. Moscow City Council , in 1967-1968 - at the Moscow Theater. Lenin Komsomol . In 1968 he graduated from the acting department of the Theater School. B. Schukin . In 1975 he graduated from the directing department of VGIK (workshop of M. I. Romm , L. A. Kulidzhanov ).

Since 1992 - General Director of the Russian Film Concern. President of the International Film Festival of Slavic and Orthodox Peoples "Golden Knight" .

Since July 26, 2010 - Member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture ( Russian Orthodox Church ) ^[6] .

Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation since 2016 ^[7] .

• Father - Pyotr Diomidovich Burlyaev (1907-1989), mother - Tatyana Alexandrovna Mikhailova (1911-1998).

• Brother - Gennady Burlyaev (October 23, 1937 - February 22, 1994), master of sports in chess, coach of the Lokomotiv DSO, one of the strongest players in lightning-fast game of chess .
• Brother - Boris Petrovich Burlyaev (literary pseudonym - Svobodin ; born 1944), poet, starred in the film " The Fate of a Drummer ", " Two Friends ", has been living in London since 2002.

• The first wife is Natalya Varley , there are no common children.
• The second wife is Natalia Bondarchuk .

• son Ivan Burlyaev (born September 27, 1976).
  • grandchildren Nastya and Nikita ^[9] .
• daughter Maria Burlyaeva (born August 27, 1987), actress of the Moscow Academic Theater. Vl. Mayakovsky, a graduate of GITIS ^[9] .

• Third wife - Inga Olegovna Shatova (born 1967), actress, deputy general. Director of the International Film Forum "Golden Knight" ^[9] .

• son Ilya (born September 4, 1994) - serves in the Donskoy Monastery, and daughter Daria (born March 13, 1997) ^[9] .
• son George Burlyaev .

Burlyaev emphasizes that he is Orthodox, repeatedly sharply expressed his negative attitude towards people with non-traditional sexual orientation , calls himself a homophobe ^[10] . Burlyaev considers homosexuality a pathology , calls it " sin ", " fornication " and " vice " ^{[10] [11]} , proposes to "limit the infinite rights of homosexuals to demonstrate this pathology on television." “It is convenient to sin - please into the gateway” ^[12] . Burlyaev believes that “the television screen has become too blue”, on television “the dominance of evil spirits”, the propaganda of “frank homosexuality, pathology and lesbianism ” ^{[13] [14] [15]} .

On March 11, 2014, he signed an appeal by cultural figures of the Russian Federation in support of the policies of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Ukraine and the Crimea ^[16] .

• Order of Alexander Nevsky ( 2017 ) - for outstanding services in the field of culture ^[17] .
• Order of Honor ( August 10, 2011 ) - for great merits in the development of domestic culture and art, many years of fruitful activity ^[18] .
• Lenin Komsomol Prize ( 1976 ) - for creating images of contemporaries in the cinema.
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984) ^[19] .
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996).
• Order of St. Sava of the I degree ( Serbian Orthodox Church , 2010 ) ^[20] .
• Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nino (Society of Russian-Georgian Friendship "Dzalisa", 2012 ) ^[21] .
• Order of St. Peter Tsetinsky ( Serbian Orthodox Church , 2015 ) ^[22] .

• International Film Forum "Golden Knight"
• Nikolai Burlyaev on the site "Children in the cinema"
• Nikolai Burlyaev : “For the salvation of the soul ...”
• Nikolai Burlyaev in the work of A. Grock "And we dreamed a dream with Savva"
• Nikolai Burlyaev / Truth and cinema of war veterans - N. Burlyaev about the Great Patriotic War
• “The man who saw the angel. Andrey Tarkovsky ” - Nikolai Burlyaev in“ Cult of Personality ”on Radio“ Freedom ” , July 13, 2019