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Nikolai Petrovich Burlyayev 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.