Maya Bulgakova: biography and personal life

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The biography of Maya Bulgakova cannot be called boring. She was not the most charming beauty of Soviet cinema. But this did not stop her from arousing enormous male interest and leading a stormy personal life. Only officially the actress was married 5 times. Outside of marriage, she also did not deny herself relationships. In her life there were 2 foreign men, and from capital countries. It is curious that almost all of Maya’s chosen ones were younger than her.

Maya had a difficult childhood. She was born in a village in Kievshchenye in 1932. In the outbreak of the war, the girl’s father and older brother were killed. The mother and her younger children fled from the front, first to Kramatorsk, and then to Irkutsk. After the war, the family returned to Kramatorsk.

“Wings” 1966

Biography

The future People's Artist of the RSFSR Maya Grigorievna Bulgakova was born in the small Ukrainian village of Buki (today Kiev region). In addition to her, three more children were growing up in the family. Only the first years of Bulgakova’s life passed in Buki. Soon the family moved to Kremenchug. The outbreak of the Great Patriotic War took away Maya’s father and older brother, who went to the front as volunteers.

Actress Maya Bulgakova

Mom, saving her three younger children from the Nazis, moved to Kramatorsk, to live with her sister. But soon, as the front approached, the military plant where the women worked was evacuated to Irkutsk.

In Irkutsk, Bulgakova went to 2nd grade. At school it was discovered that the girl had a wonderful voice. Often she and her friends organized impromptu concerts for the wounded of a military hospital. Probably, it was at these moments that an actress was “born” in Maya Grigorievna.

Maya Bulgakova in her youth

And Bulgakova was able to confirm her desire to become one after frequent visits to the cinema. This happened when Maya’s mother, having lost her health at the factory, got a job in a cinema. After graduating from school, Maya Bulgakova easily entered VGIK on the course of Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov. In 1955, Bulgakova graduated with honors from a theater university.

Maya Bulgakova: biography

The future People's Artist of the RSFSR Maya Grigorievna Bulgakova was born in the small Ukrainian village of Buki (today Kiev region). In addition to her, three more children were growing up in the family. Only the first years of Bulgakova’s life passed in Buki. Soon the family moved to Kremenchug. The outbreak of the Great Patriotic War took away Maya’s father and older brother, who went to the front as volunteers.

Actress Maya Bulgakova

Mom, saving her three younger children from the Nazis, moved to Kramatorsk, to live with her sister. But soon, as the front approached, the military plant where the women worked was evacuated to Irkutsk.

In Irkutsk, Bulgakova went to 2nd grade. At school it was discovered that the girl had a wonderful voice. Often she and her friends organized impromptu concerts for the wounded of a military hospital. Probably, it was at these moments that an actress was “born” in Maya Grigorievna.

Maya Bulgakova in her youth

And Bulgakova was able to confirm her desire to become one after frequent visits to the cinema. This happened when Maya’s mother, having lost her health at the factory, got a job in a cinema. After graduating from school, Maya Bulgakova easily entered VGIK on the course of Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov. In 1955, Bulgakova graduated with honors from a theater university.

Movies

The path to success for the aspiring actress was not short and easy. The cinematic biography of Maya Bulgakova began in 1955 with a small role in Grigory Roshal’s film “Volnitsa”. Everyone immediately noted the talent of the young artist. But there were no new proposals from directors for quite some time. Therefore, Bulgakova remembered her second talent - vocal.

Maya Bulgakova on stage

She got a job in Leonid Utesov's orchestra. Maya Bulgakova was the first in the Soviet Union to begin singing the repertoire of Edith Piaf. Moreover, as her friend and People’s Artist of Russia Tamara Syomina said, Piaf was a great loser compared to Bulgakova.

The star role came to the artist in 1966. Director Larisa Shepitko invited Maya Bulgakova to play the main role in her film “Wings”. The image of former pilot Nadezhda Petrukhina brought the actress fame and long-awaited fame. And he also opened the doors to cinema. Bulgakova was finally noticed by the directors.

Maya Bulgakova in the film “Wings”

Maya Grigorievna played in such a way that her every appearance on the screen turned out to be bright and unforgettable. For example, Alena’s small role in “The Tale of Fiery Years” was quite equal in strength to the main characters of the film.

Another minor, but very striking role was played by the actress in the drama “There is No Ford in Fire” by Gleb Panfilov. The main character was embodied by Inna Churikova, but the dissolute nurse Maria was brilliantly played by Bulgakova.

Maya Bulgakova in the film “There is no ford in fire”

The role in the drama “Crime and Punishment” turned out to be desirable, but difficult for Maya Grigorievna. Bulgakova conveyed the complex nature of her heroine’s broken fate with the highest skill.

All the heroines of this extraordinary actress are strong personalities with complex characters, a steel core inside and a difficult fate. These are the characters in the films “Resurrection”, “People and Beasts”, “Alien Letters”, “Farewell of a Slav” and “Stalin’s Funeral”. Maya Bulgakova got used to the heroines of the past era perfectly. You can verify this by watching the films “The Youth of Peter”, “The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe” and the comedy “Marriage”.

Maya Bulgakova in the film “The Housekeeper and the Lacemaker”

Of the actress’s latest roles, viewers remember the images created by Maya Bulgakova in the films “Gypsy” (Lushlikha), “The Adventures of Electronics” (school director) and “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts,” in which she perfectly played the leader of a criminal group, a cruel and strong woman. The children's fairy tale “The Housekeeper and the Lacemaker” turned out to be the last in the actress’s biography.

Popularity

After the success of “Wings,” films with the participation of Maya Bulgakova began to be released one after another. However, the actress was offered mostly episodic roles. At the same time, she endowed all her heroines with incredible temperament, willpower, confidence and love of life.

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In 1967, G. A. Panfilov offered her the main role in the film “There is no ford in fire.” Critics praised the actress's work well. In 1968, Maya Bulgakova received an award for best actress in the film “Boredom for the Sake” at the festival of Ukraine and the Transcaucasian republics. Maya’s work in the film “Crime and Punishment” can also be called successful. She played one of Dostoevsky's characters very harmoniously. After that there were successful roles in the films “Mortal Enemy”, “With You and Without You”, “Gypsy”. The latest television adaptation made Maya Bulgakova recognizable. Many remember her scandalous heroine Lushlikha. The actress also wonderfully fit into the image of the head of the mafia in the famous television series “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts.”

For Bulgakova, work was the most important part of life. The actress’s daughter said that the celebrity only considered filming as her job. Throughout her career, Maya Bulgakova starred in 180 films. She was a kind of record holder and in terms of the number of films she was second only to Lyubov Sokolova. The last film with the participation of Maya Bulgakova, “The Housekeeper and the Lacemaker,” was released after her death.

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Personal life

Almost all of the artist’s on-screen heroines are unfortunate women with a broken destiny. But Maya Bulgakova’s personal life was completely different. The beauty was an incredible success among men. Families and even countries were abandoned for her sake.

Husbands of Maya Bulgakova: Anatoly Nitochkin and Alexey Gabrilovich

The actress's first marriage was a student's. In her 2nd year, Bulgakova married cameraman Anatoly Nitochkin. He wanted his housewife wife to be waiting for him at home, but this was not part of Maya’s plans: she dreamed of a career. Therefore, the 4-month-old daughter Zina was sent to her grandmother. And soon Nitochkin himself disappeared from Bulgakova’s life.

During her concert activities in the Utesova orchestra, Maya Grigorievna met 28-year-old handsome Alexei Gabrilovich, the son of the famous film playwright. The romance that broke out grew into marriage. But very restless - with frequent quarrels and reconciliations.

Husbands of Maya Bulgakova: Alexander Surin and Richard Collins

She left Gabrilovich Bulgakov for the son of Mosfilm director Alexander Surin. He was so carried away by the beauty that he took her away from her pregnant husband. He married Maya Bulgakova and gave his stepdaughter Maria his last name. And a little over a year later, the artist returned to Gabrilovich.

However, only for a year. Because the English choreographer Richard Collins, who was 13 years younger than the actress, became interested in the Russian beauty. But soon he was forced to return to his homeland. He also called his beloved woman, but she remained in Russia for the sake of her career and for many years received romantic letters from a man in love with touching declarations of feelings.

Maya Bulgakova and her last husband Peter Dobias

But the Austrian Peter Dobias, having arrived in Moscow on business, abandoned both his country and family for the sake of Bulgakova. They lived together for 16 happy years. Peter died in 1994. Maya Grigorievna incredibly missed him. Life has lost all its colors and meaning. 3 months after his death, she died. And a year after her death, Alexei Gabrilovich, who loved Maya Bulgakova until the end of his days, also passed away.

Death

The tragedy happened in the fall of 1994. Maya Grigorievna and her colleague Lyubov Sokolova were going to a concert. The driver of the car lost control and the car crashed into a pole.

Memorial plaque and grave of Maya Bulgakova

Both artists ended up in intensive care, the driver died on the spot. Sokolova recovered, but Maya Bulgakova passed away a few days later (October 7). The actress was buried next to her husband Peter Dobias at the capital's Rakitki cemetery.

Death of the actress

On October 1, 1994, Maya Bulgakova and her friend, actress Lyubov Sokolova, took a taxi.
Maya behaved unusually animatedly - for the first time since the day of Peter's death, and daughter Masha, looking at her mother, suddenly clearly realized that she would soon be gone. And in the evening a car crashed into a billboard. Maya Grigorievna was taken to the hospital in serious condition. “It feels like she doesn’t want to live,” the doctors shrugged. It was true. Shortly before the accident, Maya Bulgakova wrote in her diary: “Petya, take me to your place. I often hear you calling me: where are you, my beauty?

Maya Bulgakova died six days after the accident, on October 7, 1994, without regaining consciousness. She went to the call of her Petenka.

Filmography

• 1956 — “Volnitsa”
• 1966 — “Wings”
• 1967 — “There is no ford in fire”
• 1969 — “Crime and Punishment”
• 1969 — “Varkina Land”
• 1972 — “The Prince and the Pauper”
• 1979 — “Gypsy”
• 1979 — “The Adventures of Electronics”
• 1981 — “Farewell”
• 1982 - “The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe”
• 1989 — “The investigation is being conducted by Experts”
• 1990 — “Stalin’s Funeral”
• 1994 — “Falling Speed”
• 1995 — “The Housekeeper and the Lacemaker”
• 1996 — “Red Mafia”

Bulgakova Maya Grigorievna

Filmography

1956 - Volnitsa - Oksana 1957 - Cranes are flying - a soldier on the platform 1958 - Walking through torment - Agrippina 1960 - Resurrection - Anisya (not in the credits) 1961 - Tale of Fiery Years - Olena Stupakova 1961 - Above the sky - Petya's mother 1961 - Horizon - Shura , sovkhoznitsa, shock worker of labor 1962 - Court of the insane - Greta Norman 1962 - People and animals - Galina 1962 - Knight's move - Lisa, Alyosha Levshin's aunt (not in the credits) 1964 - Russian forest - in the episode 1965 - We, the Russian people - mother 1966 - The devil with the briefcase - Vera Fedulova 1966 - The last month of autumn - Galya, Andrei's wife 1966 - Wings - Nadezhda Stepanovna Petrukhina 1967 - And no one else - Marya Sergeevna Kazankova 1967 - For the sake of boredom - Arina 1967 - There is no ford in fire - Maria, nurse 1968 - A case from investigative practice - episode (uncredited) 1969 - People are like rivers (short film) - the rowdy's wife 1969 - Boys - Bori's mother 1969 - I am his bride - Maria Stepanovna 1969 - Varka's land - Pasha Tkachenko 1969 - Crime and punishment - Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova 1969 - Bonivur's Heart - Glafira Nasedkina, Nastya's mother 1969 - Last holidays - mother of Boris and Danila 1970 - Vitka (short film) - school director 1970 - Messengers of Eternity - non-commissioned officer of the women's battalion 1970 - The Day Ahead - Aunt Polya 1970 - Unexpected love - Alena's mother 1971 - About friends and comrades - Marya Alekseevna 1971 - Bread and salt 1971 - Lada from the land of the Berendeys - Lada's grandmother, kind Baba Yaga 1971 - Summer of Private Dedov - Efrosinya Petrovna Podberezkina, mother 1971 - Pier on that shore - Lida 1971 - Yegor Bulychov and others - Ksenia, Bulychov's wife 1972 - Road check - peasant woman 1972 - Mortal enemy - Evdoha 1972 - Faith, Hope, Love - Taisiya Pavlovna 1972 - Allow take-off! - Valentina Andreevna, wife of Sakhno 1972 - Red Sun - Nyura 1972 - Translation from English - Violetta Lvovna 1972 - Trust - Prudnichikha 1972 - Tomorrow it will be late... - a woman in mourning 1972 - The Prince and the Pauper - Jenny Canty, Tom's mother 1972 - Here for us live 1973 - With you and without you - Daria 1973 - Tartak - Nasta 1973 - Ring - Maria Vasilievna Fedyakina 1973 - Appointment - Stepanovna 1974 - Looking for my destiny - Vera Vladimirovna Zaostrovtseva 1974 - Did you call the doctor? — Glafira Vasilievna, pensioner 1974 — What are your rights? - director in a rural club 1974 - Personal life 1974 - Sea Gate - train passenger 1975 - Other people's letters - Begunkova, mother of Zina and Shura 1975 - All the evidence against him - Anna Vasilyevna 1975 - When the earth trembles - Nina Gritsenko 1975 - You are appointed granddaughter - neighbor grandfather Timofey 1975 - Rosa - Anyuta 1975 - Ar-hi-me-dy! - mother of Alexei and Tanya 1975 - For the rest of my life - Dusya 1976 - Who, if not you? - Natalya Fedorovna Batova 1976 - Strogovs - Marfa Yutkina 1976 - Everyone knows Kadkina - Nyurka, widow, friend of Pelageya 1977 - Budenovka - Babunikha 1977 - This is how the legend began - Ksenia Gerasimovna, teacher 1977 - Marriage - Arina Panteleimonovna 1977 - Front behind the front line - Losenka's wife 1977 - Traitor - Sasha Galkin's mother 1978 - Jump from the roof - Anna Aleksandrovna Lobeshkina 1978 - Gift of fate - Anna Gavrilovna 1978 - Roadside - Katerina Semyonovna 1978 - Snow in mourning - Maria Lavalou 1978 - Salt of the earth - Marya Grigorievna 1978 - Undersand Napoleon III - saleswoman of the village store 1979 - In a new place - Praskovya 1979 - Autumn story - Marya Petrovna 1979 - Gypsy - Lushchilikha 1979 - Adventures of Electronics - school director 1980 - Old debts - Anna Semyonovna 1980 - Youth of Peter - Brovkin 1980 - Investigation - Lapteva 1980 - Meetings from 9 to 9 - professor from Leningrad 1981 - Deputy hour - Anastasia Grigorievna 1981 - Thank you everyone! - Claudia Stepanovna, bakery worker 1981 - Vasily and Vasilisa - Avdotya 1981 - Big conversation - Stepchak's mother 1981 - Farewell - Nastasya, Daria's friend 1981 - Autumn road to mother (short film) - Maria 1981 - Forest song. Mavka - Lukash's mother 1982 - Solar Wind - Anastasia Fedorovna, senior laboratory assistant 1982 - According to the laws of war - Bori's mother 1982 - The man who closed the city - head of the hotel personnel department 1983 - Found guilty - Mukhina, victim 1982 - The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe - Ulrika, daughter of the murdered Torquil Wolfganger 1983 - Short sleeves - Aunt Klava 1983 - Noose - Mother Mukhina 1984 - Rowan Nights - Maria Yakovlevna, chairman of the collective farm 1984 - Through all the years - Elena Stepanovna Demina 1985 - Attention! All posts... - the wife of a drunkard 1985 - For the coming century - the store manager (episode 3) 1985 - Give us men! - Baba Polya 1985 - Painting - Chistyakova 1985 - Matveeva's joy 1985 - Farewell of a Slav - Gerasimova 1985 - Unlike - head of a kindergarten 1986 - The right to love 1986 - A Cossack galloped through the valley - Evdokia Kuzminichna Boroday 1986 - Dating time - Mikhailovna 1986 - It's thundering somewhere war - Daria 1987 - Katenka - Daria 1987 - Defeat - Vera Matveevna 1987 - Straw bells - Melanka 1989 - Did not get along in character - Kira Petrovna, teacher 1989 - The investigation is carried out by Experts. Mafia - Lyubov Nikolaevna Khomutova, Koval's right hand 1989 - Women who were lucky - Anastasia 1990 - Enchanted wanderer - Serdyukova 1990 - Dina - Gavrilovna 1990 - My people - Inna's grandmother 1990 - Lawyer - Tamara Timofeevna, Varentsova's aunt 1990 - Swan Lake. Zone - old woman 1990 - Stalin's funeral - "Stalin's wife" 1991 - Demon 1991 - Honeymoon 1992 - Melodrama with attempted murder - Dovgan's mother 1992 - Fictitious marriage - doctor 1992 - Forgiveness - Daria Sergeevna 1992 - Aries 1993 - American grandfather - landlady 1994 - Round dance - Daria Dulova 1994 - Falling speed / Terminal Velocity - Mother Christa 1995 - Housekeeper and the lacemaker - Akulina Alekseevna 1996 - Red Mafia / Mafia rouge - Nyusha

Teleplays

1975 - Boy with a Sword (multi-part teleplay) - Tatyana Mikhailovna 1978 - The side where the wind is Yashka’s mother

Cartoon dubbing

1964 - Who is to blame? - girl's mother