Biography for
Nikolai (Character)
from Eastern Promises (2007)

Name- Nikolai / gender - Male / race- Russian / religion- catholic / age - late 40's / height: about 5' 11" (viggo's height) more character info: nikolai is the driver and "clean up man" for the Vory V Zakone. he starts out the movie waiting by his car for Kirill to come back out so that they can go to Azim's barber shop to "take care of" the body of a Chechen that had offended Kirill. while waiting outside the Trans-Siberian he notices anna's motercycle and asks her how much she would like for it. after leaning up the body Nikolai is sent to retrive tatiana's diary from anna and her family, after this encounter anna and nikolai have many run-ins with eachother, one where nikolai finds that semyon is the father of christine and has to keep Kirill from attacking anna when she reviels the information. eventually nikolai helps anna get more information about the lineage of the baby. this whole time nikolai continously aids Kirill and gets him out of many tight spots. eventually semyon allows Nikolai to be initated into the crime family under the pretens that he can trust nikolai better than he had oridionally thought but his alteriot motive is to have nikolai unkowingly pose as Kirill at a bathouse that he attends with azim, where he is set up to be killed by the brothers of the chechen that was killed earlier in the film. after killing both of the would-be assasins he is rushed to the hospital that Anna works at. while in the hospitalhe is visited by the man who he really works for since he is infiltrating the crime family for the british police. he revels to the officer semyons rape of the 14 year old tatiana to get semyon out of the way and saves the infant christine from Kirill who was ordered by is father to kill the baby since she is the only evidence of the rape. nikolai hands the baby to anna whom he proceeds to kiss before leaving with Kirill to celebrate their rise within the family.