Mr Tarkovsky originally hails from central Ukraine - from a city now known in Ukrainian (since post-Soviet/Russian independence) as Kirovohrad (and Kirovograd in Russian).
His father joined the military at the outset of WWII when Andrei was just a child, snd his mother moved/evacuated the family further east away from the fighting, settling in/around Moscow.
I'm not sure if he identified more as a Ukrainian or a Russian, but I can tell you that the most prevalent Christian traditions of his native Ukraine when his family lived there were...
1) Eastern Orthodoxy, as the 'Ukrainian Orthodox Church', who continue to celebrate the Greek/Byzantine rite, using the Old Slavonic liturgy, and are under authority of the Patriarch of Moscow (as opposed to the Bishop of Rome), hence making them the Russian Orthodox Church within Ukraine. Generally, the further east one travels in Ukraine towards the Russian border, the higher the Russian Orthodox population grows.
2) Eastern Catholicism in the form of the 'Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church' (who still celebrate the Greek/Byzantine rite and Old Slavonic liturgy, instead of those of the Latin liturgy associated with the Roman rite, yet maintain communion with the Bishop of Rome, aka 'Catholic Pope'). The largest numbers typically have been seen in the central heart of Ukraine, and is often thought to be the most non-Russian, non-Pole, pro-Ukraine, pro-Rusyn institution.
3) Roman Catholicism - mainly found in far western Ukraine where the country shares a border with the heavily-Catholic Poland. The far-western city of L'viv/Lwow used to be the focal point of this phenomena, with a majority/plurality of the populace being Catholics. Generally, in western Ukraine both Greek Catholics from the Ukrainian/Rusyn communities and Roman Catholics from the Polish communities often outnumbered most Orthodox.
As for Turkashevy himself, I'm not sure where his heritage lies. He could just as easily be E.Orthodox or E.Catholic (I don't think his family were R.Catholic, just a hunch).
But to answer your question, yes Eastern Orthodox Christianity venerates the Virgin Mary (including any other saints) every bit as much as Catholic Christianity does. The same goes for Oriental Orthodox Christianity, while we're at it. But it wouldn't really matter, as all of them celebrate mass and take the same sacraments, and in more or less the same way.
Sometimes in the US ppl can forget that most Christianity looks like this (and has so since the days of Christ) because of the right-wing non-mainstream Protestants, who tend to be loud, abrasive, and frighteningly Puritanical in outlook, and have so many crackpot ideas that it's important to remember that those who wave the flag of 'evangelical', 'mormon' or 'conservative religious right' have more in common with the fundamentalist offshoots of other religions.
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