Maya Bulgakovа

Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakovа (Russian: Ма́йя Григо́рьевна Булга́кова) (May 19, 1932 – October 7, 1994^[1]) was a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Bulgakova was born May 19, 1932 in the village of Buki (now the Kiev Oblast, Ukraine). In 1941 the Bulgakov family moved to Kramatorsk, to this place they later returned from evacuation. In Kramatorsk Maya successfully graduated from high school and decided after graduation try to become an actress. In 1955 Maya Bulgakova graduated from VGIK (Bibikov and Pyzhova course) and started working in the National Film Actors' Theatre. In the movie, she made her debut in the Grigori Roshal film The Libertine after which she was referred to as a very gifted actress. However, the directors did not hurry up with new proposals. Bulgakova began to sing on stage with the Utesov orchestra and even won a prize for World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. The actress has become the first in the USSR to perform on the stage the songs of Edith Piaf.

After a decade of inactivity episodic roles, the first major work of the actress in cinema was the film Wings. After that Bulgakova began to have a high output of roles in film, but mostly in small roles and episodes.

Maya Bulgakova married for the second time to the son of the prominent screenwriter Yevgeny Gabrilovich - Aleksey Gabrilovich (her first husband was cinematographer Anatoly Nitochkin). Bulgakova played a huge role in Alexey becoming a director. During their life together she was the most strict and harsh critic of her husband's work.

The couple raised two daughters. Maria Gabrilovich later became an actress.

In 1967 director Panfilov started shooting the film No Path Through Fire. Author of the script was Eugene Gabrilovich. For the main role Inna Churikova was immediately approved. But the role of the dissolute nurse Mary secretly in love with Commissioner Evstryukova (Anatoly Solonitsyn) a lot of actresses auditioned. Yevgeny Gabrilovich's wife Nina suggested to try Maya Bulgakova. The choice was successful.

Another big success was the role of Katerina Ivanovna in Crime and Punishment (1969).

Among the successful role of Maya Bulgakova can also be called Luschilka, from the audience favorite television adaptation of the novel by A. Kalinin Gypsy.

Maya Bulgakova worked a lot at the National Film Actors' Theatre, but on this side of creation says: After a film everything is strange and scary ... In the hall people sit.

In the 1970s Maya Bulgakova remarried. Her husband was the Austrian Communist Peter Dobias (1937 - 1994) who moved for the sake of Bulgakova to Moscow. She was able to leave the USSR and go live in Austria but the actress chose to stay at home.

Maya Bulgakova starred in many films. She was obsessed with work. Lover can betray, husband can betray, friends can betray, only work does not betray, - said the actress. Maya Grigoryevna did not remain calm even at home. She constantly sought something to do. According to friends her house was always squeaky clean. With her workload she still managed to find time to devote to her daughters, to clean up at home and cook.

October 1, 1994 Maya Bulgakova and Lyubov Sokolova was in a terrible accident - the car in which they were transported to a concert, crashed into a pole. The driver died at the scene and the actress ended up in intensive care. Lyubov was released a few weeks, and Maya Grigoryevna died a few days later without regaining consciousness. Shortly before the accident her husband died. A year later her second husband Alexey Gabrilovich died. At the funeral of Maya Bulgakova her close friend told me that before the tragedy, the actress in a whisper, but with a smile, told the following: I know that soon I will meet with my husband. The actress suffered greatly from the death of her husband, feeling lonely and not being able to imagine life without her loved one with whom she lived long and well.

Filmography

• Resurrection (1960)
• Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
• An Easy Life (1964)
• Wings (1966)
• No Path Through Fire (1968)
• Crime and Punishment (1970)
• Trial on the Road (1971)
• For the Rest of His Life (1975)
• The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979)
• The Youth of Peter the Great (1980)
• Farewell (1983)
• The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983)
• Stalin's Funeral (1990)
• Terminal Velocity (1994)

References

External links

• Maya Bulgakova on IMDb