Biography of Nikolai Burlyaev

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. There are many paintings on his track record that other actors would not dare to dream of, because for Burlyaev the qualitative level of the films in which he starred was always important. Therefore, now, when the quality of modern cinema leaves much to be desired, he advocates the revival of past traditions and spiritual and moral values, without which the Russian people risk losing their identity.

In the photo: Nikolai Burlyaev's childhood and youth years Nikolai was born and raised in Moscow in the harsh post -war years. He was the fourth, the youngest child in the family, besides very weak and painful. At five, he also began to stutter - a drunken neighbor scared the boy in the dark corridor of the communal apartment. It would seem that Kolya did not have a single chance to become an actor, but fate ordered otherwise.

Although parents worked all their lives with economic engineers, they had a direct connection with art and creativity. Grandfather and grandfather on the paternal line performed at the troupe of the mobile theater under the pseudonym Filippovsky. Deomid Burlyaev was a magnificent comedian, his wife was a talented tragedy actress. And the clan itself originates from the Zaporizhzhya Cossack Kondraty Burlyai, who, being the associate of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, was sent to Moscow as an ambassador with a motion to join Russia.

This is a documentary confirmation, which fell into the hands of Nikolai already in adulthood. Later it turns out that Nikolai Martynov, the killer of Mikhail Lermontov, spent his recent years in this mansion. Many years later, when Burlyaev began filming the film about the legendary Russian poet, in ancient photographs he was in amazement, he recognized the house in which he spent the first five years of his life.

The second house, in which the Burlyaev family moved in the year, was no less significant. He was on Gorky Street, a five -minute walk from Red Square, and Bondarchuki, Livanovs and other famous creative dynasties lived in the neighborhood. But at that time, Kolya had not yet thought about the acting profession, although his elder brother Boris starred in films from the fourth grade and played at the amateur theater.

Yes, and Nikolai himself tried to the film "Count's ruins", but did not receive a role. But, as they say, you won’t get away from fate, and in the year an unfamiliar guy approached the street right on the street to Burlyaev with a proposal to play in his film. It was an old manner of VGIK Andrei Konchalovsky, he took off the thesis “Boy and the pigeon” and could not find a suitable guy for the main role.

The debut in the cinema was successful, despite the stutter of the young actor and the complete absence of any experience. The picture received a prize at the Venice festival, and the photos of Burlyaev appeared in the Mosfilm file cabinet. He recommended a talented teenager to the chief director Zavadsky, when he needed a young actor for the play “Leningradsky Prospekt”. This experience has become a strong foundation for his further creative activity, without which the young man no longer thought of the future.

The director was going to shoot the picture “Ivanovo Childhood” and was looking for a young actor for the main role.

Andrei Konchalovsky recommended that he pay attention to Nicholas, and the young man was invited to tests. Kolya Burlyaev in the film “Ivanovo Childhood” from the first meeting became clear that Burlyaev was ideally suited for the role of Ivan - a boy who had lost his parents during the war and became a scout in the rear of the enemy. Despite the modest experience, Nikolai masterfully coped with the task and managed to fully realize all the director’s ideas.

The frame from the film “Ivanovo Childhood” The picture was awarded the “Golden Leo” of the Venetian festival and other prestigious awards and entered the top ten films about the Second World War. Such eminent directors as Ingmar Bergman, Sergey Parajanov and Kshishtof Keslevsky noted that this tape made an indelible impression on them and seriously influenced further creativity.

The next joint work of Burlyaev and Tarkovso was “Andrei Rublev”, where the role of Thomas, a student of the artist, was initially planned for Nikolai. But, having read the script, Burlyaev did not see himself in the image of this hero, but Boriska Motorin, who is instructed to cast a huge bell in the plot, immediately came to his below. Nikolai Burlyaev, in the role of Boriska Motorina, Tarkovsky categorically did not want to change the cast, and Nikolai had to resort to cunning.

He turned to a common friend Savva Yamshchikov, and he invited Andrei to argue on a box of cognac, that he would still take Burlyaev on this role, and this step would be successful. Samples were arranged, during which it became clear that it was Nikolai who should play Borisk and no one else would better cope with this role. Nikolai Burlyaev and Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Andrei Rublev happened - the last short story “The Bell” became the apotheosis of the entire film and fully revealed the unique dramatic talent of Burlyaev.The shooting was given to the actor not easy - in parallel, Nikolai starred in the film by Julia Fayta “Boy and Girl” and was forced to constantly wander from one site to another.

The director was very unhappy that his actor was distracted by another material, considered this a kind of betrayal. But the success of the picture smoothed out all the sharp corners, although Tarkovsky did not star more Burlyaev. I love Andrei Tarkovsky and I still worship, to be honest, he broke my life for many years, fixing the image of such a tough, nervous boy for me.

And I am different. His classmates were future outstanding skaters Tatyana Tarasova and Alexei Ulanov, Irina Rodnina studied two classes younger. Even during the filming of the film “Boy and Pigeons”, Konchalovsky introduced Nicholas to Nicholas. Since then, the guys became friends and spent a lot of time together. Mikhalkov graduated from the school a year earlier and entered the Schukin school.

In the year, he took documents there and Burlyaev. Nikolai Burlyaev in his youth was not difficult to do-the young actor was well known to work with Tarkovsky and was enrolled immediately for the second year to Katin-Yartsev. Nikolai was incredibly lucky - Yuri Vasilievich was considered the best teacher in the “pike” and raised a galaxy of legendary artists. During his studies, Nikita staged the play “12 angry men”, which became the thesis of the course and then for a long time did not leave the scenes of the capital's theaters.

Burlyaev played in him Henry Ford, one of the twelve jury, which alone changes the course of the entire court session. Only once, Nikita offered a friend a tiny episode in the picture “Several days from the life of I. Oblomov”, which greatly offended Burlyaev, accustomed to serious characteristic roles. And we have not talked for 15 years until I saw his documentary film-confession “Anna: from 6 to 18”.

This film shocked me and opened Nikita Sergeyevich from a new side, unfamiliar to me, and there were fewer such in his creative career - Tarkovsky set too high the bar, and Burlyaev was very difficult to agree to the roles, in his opinion, not carrying a deep moral message. After reading the script, Nikolai immediately realized that the role of the former front -line soldier Sasha Netuzhilina was as if created for him, as the next day he told the director.

Pyotr Efimovich was only “for”, the only thing that embarrassed him was how Burlyaev would look in the same frame with Churikova. But the samples went perfectly, and Nikolai played one of his best roles, which he himself loves very much. Nikolai Burlyaev in the film “Military Field Roman” subsequently noted that Todorovsky puts on a par with Tarkovsky, since he broke the current stereotype about Burlyaev-actor.

On the set of the film "Military Field Roman" it is worth noting his participation in another military drama-"Checking on the roads" of Alexei German. Nikolai got a small role of a young policeman, but the director and skill of the director made a strong impression on him. Another bright work of Burlyaev was the role of Boris in the melodrama “Mom got married”, where Oleg Efremov and Lucien Ovchinnikov became his partners.

The frame from the film “Check on the Roads”, and, of course, one cannot help but mention the film adaptation of the immortal novel by Mikhail Bulgakov “Master and Margarita” Yuri Kara, in which Burlyaev expertly reincarnated into Yeshua himself. In Master and Margarita, Nikolai Burlyaev played Yeshua, the actor did not immediately agree to this role, although the samples went perfectly.

He was stopped not even by a mystical halo that accompanied this work and attempts by his adaptations, but by the degree of responsibility for the performance of the role of Christ, which a simple mortal dared to try on. As a believer, Burlyaev considered it a great sin, but after a year of thought, he still took part in the filming. Before the work, the actor received a blessing from the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Mission in Jerusalem.

Director Burlyaev is not only a good actor, but also a talented screenwriter and director. In early youth, he was read out by Lermontov’s works and admired the courage and patriotism of the classic. The idea to make a film about the poet originally belonged to the director Sergei Solovyov, but the officials from Goskino did not allocate the necessary funds for the picture. Burlyaev turned to his father -in -law Sergei Bondarchuk for help, and he managed to “shove” the picture.

Nikolai Burlyaev, on the set of Lermontov, by that time, had already graduated from the directorial department of VGIK Diploma work-Vanka-Cain from the "Poshekhonskaya old" Saltykov-Shchedrin and dreamed of starting to create his own films. He planned to personally play Lermontov and carefully prepared for this role, mastering the skills of jigita and fencing on sabers.

The frame from the film "Lermontov" in the long -awaited premiere in the House of Cinema took place, and a few days later the picture was sharply criticized at the fifth congress of filmmakers. Burlyaev was accused of “nationalist extremism” and kumovy due to the fact that he involved his wife Natalya Bondarchuk, the son of Ivan, the father of Sergei Bondarchuk and Mother-in-law Inna Makarov in the picture.Bondarchuk himself also got, who was accused of assigning state money and using it for personal purposes.

Because of this, Sergei Fedorovich had a heart attack, which greatly undermined the director’s health. After this congress, Burlyaev fell into disgrace and was secretly included in the “black list” of objectionable actors who were not recommended to shoot. And then e, and there was no work at all, so the actor had to seriously think about how to feed his family. In the year, he came up with the idea to create and head the International Festival of Orthodox Cinema.

Money for a good deed was found, the film forum was called “Golden Knight”, and his motto became high words “For moral ideals! For the rise of the souls of man! Since the year, Burlyaev has been headed by the Kinodorum “Golden Vityaz” in the year Burlyaev became the artistic director of the Fatherland film studio, and a member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture. The actor is also one of the founders of the Pavel Florensky Orthodox Culture Fund and the President of the Culture Fund of the Cossacks of Russia.

The personal life of Nikolai Burlyaeva, Nikolai's first wife was “Beauty, Komsomol member and athlete” Natalya Varley, with whom he studied on the same course at the Schukinsky School. It was an immature student marriage, which “in itself” broke up three years later. Natalia and Bondarchuk - the first and second wife of Burlyaeva, the second and second wife Bondarchuk, the eldest daughter of the famous director from marriage with Inna Makarova.

Natasha lived in a neighboring house and was four years younger than Nikolai. They often intersected in common companies with Konchalovsky and Tarkovsky, in which Natalia was passionately in love. Tarkovsky replied to Bondarchuk reciprocity, took her off in his famous Solaris, but did not dare to leave the family for her. Natasha was heavily worried about their gap and even tried to part with life.

All this time, Nicholas was fiercely in love with her. He helped the girl cope with his personal drama. Natalia appreciated his nobility and married Burlyaeva, thus finally breaking all relations with Tarkovsky. Natalya Bondarchuk and Nikolai Burlyaev at the couple had a son Ivan and daughter Masha, both continued the creative dynasty and also found themselves in art. Ivan became a famous composer, writes magnificent music for films.

The older children of Nikolai Burlyaev: Maria and Ivan Unfortunately, the marriage of Nikolai and Natalia also broke up, but the former spouses managed to maintain warm good relations. And the actor considers the main woman of her life to the third wife, actress Inga Shatova, with whom he lives in a legitimate marriage since the beginning of x. In the year, Inga, like many young actors, remained out of work and came to work for the Golden Vityaz festival.

There she was noticed by Burlyaev, a great connoisseur of female beauty.