The article will talk about the son of the famous gymnast Olga Korbut and the former lead singer of VIA Pesnyary Leonid Bortkevich. The biography of Richard Bortkevich dates back to 1979, when he was born. In 1989, he left for the United States with his father Leonid Bortkevich and his mother. The initiator of the departure was Olga Korbut.
Life before moving
Frequent guests at their home were world stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elton John. The boy began to act in films from childhood. Mom did not have time to devote herself entirely to her son, so his grandmother drove him to the shooting. From childhood, my father taught me to speak the Belarusian language. Richard often listened to songs performed by his father. Mom raised her son in severity, but with his father he was on friendly terms.
After the Chernobyl accident, parents came to the decision that his son needed to stay with friends in America. At first, Richard Bortkevich could not get used to the new country, he was drawn to return to his homeland. A year later, my parents arrived, a house appeared in Atlanta, and life went on. Parents lived together for 22 years, broke up, remaining friends.
Life in America
The boy began to study at an American college of commerce. For a long time I could not get used to the food consisting of fast food, but after a while I got used to it. Since childhood, he was going to get the profession of a programmer. After entering Stanford, he lived in Silicon Valley in California for six months. At the university, serious loads were sometimes expected at 17 hours a day. Sergey Brin, a Google developer, is one of Richard's close student friends.
He organized his own business, consisting of an advertising corporation, while still studying at the university. In two years he achieved significant success in developing his own business. Own clients appeared in the advertising business. The corporation employed about 20 people, then they had to sell their share to a partner.
In America, a long time met with a girl named Kelly. After the tragic death of a friend for a long time could not start a new relationship. One time spent in an institution for talented adolescents. According to Richard, life in a boarding school was for him, like a resort with good conditions or an army that gave him a certain life experience. There he devoted himself to reading books, mainly autobiographies of famous people. In his free time he studied computer. Received during this period five certificates of a new level of programmer.
Richard Bortkevich closely monitors nutrition and adheres to a healthy lifestyle. Mother got married a second time, father married Tatyana Rodyanko, who is only six years older than Richard himself. On the part of his father, he had a younger brother, in whose education he also takes an active part. The family maintains warm relations with each other.
Richard, after 15 years in America, moved to his father in Minsk. Quite often communicates with her mother through calls and emails. Now lives in Minsk with his father, stepmother Tatyana and half-brother Christian.
Films with Richard Bortkevich
Films in which Bortkevich received roles:
- The film "High Blood." Starred in the role of Andryusha (1989), Jockey Philip is in the hospital, and at this moment the authorities send his favorite to the stud farm. This is where the plot begins.
- The film "Two on the island of tears." Starred in the role of the boy Serezha (Strizh) (1987). Richard Bortkevich plays the doctor’s young son. He at one time leaves the family, and his mother meets another man named Lenchik. He becomes the newfound father for the boy. The doctor is trying to re-establish relations with his family by acquiring a boy a bicycle, as the drama sets in the film.
