Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakova (russian: Ма́йя Григо́рьевна Булга́кова; 19 May 19327 October 1994) was a

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. She was one of the

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Biography

Bulgakova was born on 19 May 1932 in the village of Buki (now the

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). In 1941 the Bulgakov family moved to

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, to this place they later returned from evacuation. In Kramatorsk, Bulgakova successfully graduated from high school and decided after graduation to become an actress. In 1955, Bulgakova graduated from

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(actor's workshop of Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov) and started working in the National Film Actors' Theatre. She made her debut film in

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's ''The Libertine''. Bulgakova began to sing on stage with the Utesov orchestra and won a prize at the 1957

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. The actress has become the first in the USSR to perform on the stage the songs of

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. After a decade of inactivity episodic roles, her first major work were in ''

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''. After that. Bulgakova began to have a high output of small rolls in film and episodes. Bulgakova first married cinematographer Anatoly Nitochkin, and then had a second marriage with Aleksey Gabrilovich, the son of the prominent screenwriter

Yevgeny Gabrilovich Yevgeny Iosifovich Gabrilovich (russian: Евге́ний Ио́сифович Габрило́вич; 29 September 1899 – 5 December 1993) was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for 29 films between 1936 a ...

. The couple raised two daughters. One of them, Maria Gabrilovich, later became an actress. In the 1970s Bulgakova remarried to the Austrian communist Peter Dobias (1937–1994).

Death

On 1 October 1994 Bulgakova and Lyubov Sokolova were in a car accident while on their way to a concert. The driver died at the scene; Bulgakova went into intensive care. Sokolova was released after a few weeks but Bulgakova died a few days later without regaining consciousness. Shortly before the accident, her husband died. A year later, her second husband Alexey Gabrilovich died.

Filmography

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'' (1960) *'' Chronicle of Flaming Years'' (1961) *'' An Easy Life'' (1964) *''

'' (1966) *'' No Path Through Fire'' (1968) *''

Crime and Punishment ''Crime and Punishment'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Преступление и наказание, Prestupléniye i nakazániye, prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...

'' (1970) *''

Trial on the Road ''Trial on the Road'' (russian: Проверка на дорогах, translit=''Proverka na dorogakh'') is a 1971 black-and-white Soviet film set in World War II, directed by Aleksey German, starring Rolan Bykov, Anatoly Solonitsyn and Vladimir Z ...

'' (1971) *'' Yegor Bulychyov and Others'' (1971) *'' For the Rest of His Life'' (1975) *''

The Adventures of the Elektronic ''The Adventures of Electronic'' (russian: Приключения Электроника, translit. Priklyucheniya Elektronika) is a 1979 Soviet children's science fiction TV miniseries, directed by Konstantin Bromberg. The series' screenpla ...

'' (1979) *'' The Youth of Peter the Great'' (1980) *''

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'' (1983) *'' The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe'' (1983) *'' Stalin's Funeral'' (1990) *''

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'' (1994)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulgakova, Maya Road incident deaths in Russia 1932 births 1994 deaths Russian film actresses Russian stage actresses Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses 20th-century Russian actresses People's Artists of the RSFSR Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni