Olga Gulazyan Explained

Olga Gulazyan
Native Name:Օլգա Նիկողայոսի Գուլազյան
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Date:8 January 1886
Birth Place:Tiflis, Russian Empire
Death Place:Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Nationality:Armenian
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1900–1963
Employer:Sundukyan State Academic Theatre

Olga Gulazyan (Armenian: Օլգա Նիկողայոսի Գուլազյան; 8 January 1886 – 27 May 1970) was a SovietArmenian actress of film and theater. Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1952) and the State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1967).[1]

Career

She was born on January 8, 1886, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia). She graduated from the parish school of the Kharpukhi district in Tiflis.

She began her stage career at the age of 15. In 1900, she played the role of Nato in the play Another Victim by Gabriel Sundukian, receiving the author's encouragement. She began her professional career in 1901 in Petros Adamian State Drama Theatre in Tbilisi. Took part in performances at the Zubalov People's House, Araksi theater and in the Avjalyan auditorium. She later toured to Baku, New Nakhichevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Alexandropol and Shusha.

Gulazyan's distinctive art was formed as a result of joint work with great Armenian actors: Hovhannes Abelian, Siranush, G. Petrosyan and O.Maysuryan.

In 1926, Gulazyan moved to Yerevan and became the actress of the Gabriel Sundukyan State Academic Theater.

In 1955, she was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR of the IV convocation.[2]

She died on May 27, 1970, in Yerevan. She was buried at the Tokhmakhskoye cemetery.

Works

Film

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
1926ZareLyatif-Khanum
1955Ghosts Leave the PeaksAsmik
1958The Song of First LoveVartush, Varuzhan's mother

Theatre

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
1900Another victimNato
1922PepoEpemia
1924TartuffeDorina
1927HatabalaNatalia
1927Uncle Bagdasar
1929A Profitable PositionFelisata Gerasimovna Kukushkina[3]
1933The Imaginary InvalidTuanet
1936Namus
1944The Cliff[4]
1946Without a DowryKharita Ignatievna Ogudalova
1950Daring
1952Egor Bulychov and othersKsenia
1957The trees are dying standingGrandmother

Sources

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Prokhorov, Alexander. Гулазян Ольга Николаевна // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Soviet Encyclopedia. 1969. Moscow.
  2. Web site: Гулазян Ольга Николаевна — Энциклопедия фонда "Хайазг". 2021-10-10. ru.hayazg.info.
  3. Book: Theatrical Encyclopedia. 1961. Moscow.
  4. Ogoniok, 10 June 1966