Nikolay Burlyaev

Actor, screenwriter, director Nikolai Burlyaev was born on August 3, 1946 in Moscow. He could have become an architect, but fate decreed otherwise.

The Burlyaev family has been closely associated with the theater since pre-revolutionary times. Nikolai's grandfather and grandmother performed in the troupe of the traveling theater under the pseudonym Filippovskys. Grandfather Diomedes played comedic roles, and grandmother Lyudmila used the talent of a dramatic actress.

The Burlyaev family lived in a communal apartment in a house on Gorky Street. Everything in the apartment was in common: kitchen, corridor, toilet. An actor Boris Livanov lived in a neighboring yard - colorful, artistic, incomparable in any role. Kolya, looking at him, dreamed of a stage. But at the age of 5 he experienced a strong fright, since then he began to stutter.

The elder brother Gennady was engaged in chess, and Nikolai was an assistant in tournaments - he wrote down moves, rearranged pieces. Another brother Boris has been acting in films since grade 4. Kolya was with him for the first time and came to the audition of the painting "History Lesson". The brother got the role. Since then, Burlyaev decided that the dreams of cinema are over, it is better to be an architect. But life decreed otherwise.

In 1964, Nikolai graduated from school and entered the second year of the Shchukin school. By that time, the young man already had experience in theater and cinema. Nikita Mikhalkov and Anastasia Vertinskaya studied in the same year as Burlyaev. The stellar course completed his studies at the university with brilliant performances. The first was “Wolves and Sheep” directed by Evgeny Simonov. In the play, Burlyaev got the role of Apollo Murzavetsky.

A second work soon followed - "12 Angry Men" based on the play by R. Rose, which was directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Nikolai got used to the image of the chief juror, an architect by training.

Burlyaev's film debut took place in the 6th grade. At that time, Andrei Konchalovsky graduated from VGIK and wrote his thesis. Once the director was walking along Broadway (as Muscovites called Gorky Street) and at the Otdykh cafe he saw a local boy - it was Burlyaev. Konchalovsky offered the teenager a role in his own picture - the boy agreed. The film "Boy and Doves" turned out to be sad and poetic. In 1962, the painting won a prize at the Venice Film Festival. The photo of the young artist appeared in the Mosfilm card index.

On the set Burlyaev met Vladimir Shurupov, who worked at the Mossovet theater. Shurupov and brought the teenager to the theater. For the next four years, Nikolai played his grandson in the play "Leningradsky Prospekt". The main character of the production was Vasily Pavlovich Zabrodin performed by Nikolai Mordvinov. Young Kolya played the grandson of an elderly man.

An important role in the creative biography of Nikolai Burlyaev was played by his collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited the young artist to the main role in the film "Ivan's Childhood". The director noticed a talented boy back in 1960, two years later, through Andrei Konchalovsky, he invited the young man to record a prose excerpt from Vladimir Bogomolov's story "Ivan", which became the actor's tests for a role in Tarkovsky's film.

The actor considered this acquaintance fateful all his life. Burlyaev's hero is a ragged boy, a victim of war. During the filming of the film, Nikolai went to the pool, because according to the plot, the actor's hero had to swim across the Dnieper in late autumn. The film traveled to Europe again - in Venice, the director was awarded the Golden Lion of St. Brand ". The work of the young talent was highly appreciated by Jean-Paul Sartre.

In the future, Nikolai had to go in for figure skating, fencing, horse riding. As Burlyaev says, an actor should not be able to do much, but should learn it.

When Tarkovsky was filming "Andrei Rublev", he invited Nikolai Burlyaev to the role of Boriska. Unfortunately, the film was gathering dust on the shelves for five long years. Viewers saw the picture only in 1971. In 1972, the actor played a small role in the film "Road Checks". The film was released 13 years later. In the film The Gambler, which was based on the novel by F. Dostoevsky, Burlyaev got a psychologically difficult role - the artist played Alexei Ivanovich.

In 1976, Nikolai Burlyaev began to shoot his own films, by this time the artist already had a director's diploma. The first independent work - "Vanka-Cain". In the film "Lermontov", filmed in 1987, Burlyaev was both a director and a screenwriter.

The 80s were marked by a number of brilliant roles in Burlyaev's creative career. The actor appeared before the audience as the composer Volodya Kostsov in the children's film "Kamila", reincarnated as the boy's father Misha Burlyaev in another film for children, "Living Rainbow". In the comedy "Stoves" he played a school teacher, and in the film adaptation of "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" he played the role of Ivan Fedorovich Shponka. In 1983, Burlyaev again got into a stellar project - he played the front-line soldier Alexander Netuzhilin in the drama "Field-of-War", where Natalya Andreichenko, Inna Churikova, Viktor Proskurin became the actor's partners on the working site. The film was nominated for an Oscar.

During his career, the artist appeared in front of the audience in various roles. The best work of the actor's mature period is considered the role of Yeshua in the film "The Master and Margarita", which was filmed in 1994 by Yuri Kara. The film was released a decade after filming ended. The film was played by the stars of Russian cinema - Viktor Rakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Mikhail Ulyanov, Valentin Gaft, Alexander Filippenko.

In 1995, a new on-screen meeting of fans with Nikolai Burlyaev took place. This time in the film by Pyotr Todorovsky "What a wonderful game", where the artist appeared in the form of a painful front-line soldier Mikhail Mikhailovich. The plot of the film is based on the story of the tricks of four students of the art school, who have forgotten about the terrible time in which they live - it was 1950 in the yard.

The next time Nikolai Burlyaev appeared on the big screen in 2003, playing the main role in the biographical drama of Natalia Bondarchuk "Love and Truth of Fyodor Tyutchev." In the film, a brilliant female acting ensemble was selected, which included Natalya Bondarchuk, Irina Bezrukova, Anna Mikhalkova.

In 2008, the name of Nikolai Burlyaev appeared in the credits of the historical drama "Admiral", dedicated to the life of the Russian military leader Alexander Kolchak. The artist appeared in the form of Emperor Nicholas II. The main roles were played by Konstantin Khabensky, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Anna Kovalchuk.

The last film work in the actor's filmography was the role of Alexander Tolstoy in the drama “Gogol. Nearest ”, which appeared on screens in 2009.

Nikolai Burlyaev was married three times. For the first time, the artist married Natalia Varley at the age of 20. The actress was a year younger than her husband. The relationship did not work out from the very beginning, both turned out to be too unadapted to everyday life. The couple soon parted.

The second wife of the artist was the director and actress Natalya Bondarchuk, a friend of Natalya Varley. This marriage turned out to be longer. The couple had two children - Maria and Ivan. Ivan was fond of music since childhood, graduated from the conservatory and became a composer. Maria followed in the footsteps of her parents - she studied at GITIS, then entered the Mayakovsky Theater as an actress.

The third wife of the actor, Inga Shatova, is also an actress, but after marriage she helps her husband and heads the Golden Knight film forum. The couple have two children - son George and daughter Dasha.

Dasha was born when Burlyaev was already 50 years old. The actor says that he is happy in his personal life: Nikolai's children are talented, and they managed to maintain friendly relations with their ex-wives.

Now the actor devotes most of his time to public works and the promotion of the Golden Knight Film Forum. Nikolai Burlyaev visits Russian cities, where he holds creative meetings. On the eve of his 65th birthday, the actor released the book Life in three volumes, dedicated to the work of Mikhail Lermontov. The artist popularizes cultural and moral values, speaks out against the dominance of ignorance and rudeness on TV screens.

1961 - "Boy and a Dove" 1962 - "Ivan's Childhood" 1966 - "Andrei Rublev" 1969 - "Mom Got Married" 1972 - "The Gambler" 1979 - "Vacation in September" 1983 - "Military Romance" 1983 - "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka "1986 -" Lermontov "1994 -" The Master and Margarita "1995 -" What a wonderful game "2003 -" Love and Truth of Fyodor Tyutchev "2008 -" Admiral "2009 -" Gogol. Nearest"

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