Alexander Burdonsky

Director

Birthday October 14, 1941

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Samara, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

DEATH DATE 2017-5-23, Moscow, Russia (75 years old)

Nationality Russia

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1941

Alexander Vasilyevich Burdonsky (Александр Васильевич Бурдонский; October 14, 1941 – May 23, 2017) was a Russian theater and film director and grandson of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.

1996

He directed more than 20 plays at The Moscow Theater, and also directed films including Playing On the Keys of The Soul and This Madman Platanov. In 1996, Burdonsky was awarded the People's Artist of Russia Award for his works.

2006

He was predeceased in 2006 by his wife, Dalia Tamulevičiūtė, a Lithuanian teacher and theatre director.

2017

Burdonsky died of cancer on May 23, 2017, at the age of 75.