Karina Mikhailovna Bagdasarova - Honored Artist of Russia, holder of the Order "For the Service of Russia", a famous trainer of predatory animals. She directed a large number of numbers with her direct participation. She considers animals to be part of her extended family.
Biography of Karina Bagdasarova
The artist was born on May 20, 1973 in Nizhny Novgorod. Her father was a well-known trainer of predatory animals in the Soviet Union, and her mother was a master of sports in acrobatics.
Little Karina preferred to play with tiger cubs or lion cubs instead of dolls, she spent all her childhood in circus enclosures.
She loved to dance, perform. Mom soon noticed this and suggested that her daughter go to a choreographic school. In 1984, the girl entered the department of folk dance, which she graduated with honors.
Career
After college, the girl firmly decided to go to work in the circus, so she went to her father in the capital of Russia. At the age of 18, the girl began to act as a trainer of eighteen tigers.
In October 1991, a new show appeared in which KarinaBagdasarova was also the main character. After that, the girl entered the Institute of Culture, became a director and began to stage projects herself.
In many photos, Karina Bagdasarova is captured with her favorite animals. In 2003 Karina became the Honored Artist of Russia. In 2010, she received the Order For Service to Russia.
In 1992, Karina Bagdasarova's brother Artur joined the circus.
Joint number of Karina and Artur Bagdasarov
One of the numbers of famous trainers almost ended in tragedy. Karina and Artur performed a number with ten tigers. The artists were finishing their performance with only two tricks left to perform.
Arthur approached the tiger named Caesar too hastily to push him towards the others with a stick. The tiger was frightened and grabbed Arthur's hand with its paw, then crushed him and squeezed the trainer's head with his teeth.
Behind the scenes was my father, Mikhail Bagdasarov. He did not think for a second, immediately jumped out and began to shoot into the air with a pistol. In the end, the tiger released Arthur.
He was immediately taken to the Sklifosovsky hospital, more than 100 stitches were put on his head. The body was completely covered with wounds from teeth and claws, but, fortunately, neither the nerves nor the tendons were hurt, and Arthur was not left disabled.
Karina Bagdasarova, who loves her brother and is madly worried about him, did not leave him for a second. She was with him all the time in the clinic and tried not to leave Arthur for a long time.
Private lifeKarina
Karina Bagdasarova met her love in the circus - she married the famous circus magician Anton Krasilnikov.
Sometimes the famous couple performed together, Karina tried to help her husband in his numbers. Moreover, she admits that with tigers in the arena it’s not as scary as in some of her husband’s numbers. It happened that the magician's wife fell from a height during rehearsals. Anton Krasilnikov says that he will definitely not be able to find a more faithful and reliable actress for his numbers anywhere.
The couple had a son, who was named Nikita. Together with his mother, he was on tour from the age of three months.
Despite tender feelings, after twelve years of marriage, the couple broke up. Karina also met her second love at the arena. On the project "Circus with the Stars" she met an acrobat Denis Kozyr. He courted her for a long time, and eventually melted the trainer's heart.
A little about Karina and her family
Karina admits that her childhood with her brother was not the easiest, but interesting. Almost all the time they did not get out of the circus, which seemed to them a fairy-tale kingdom. They loved to climb back streets, hide in animal enclosures, hear about terrible events in the arena. Children almost all the time were with their parents, toured with them.
Parents almost never took their children to social events, since the characters of Arthur and Karina were not sugar. For example, the girl could calmly pick her nose in the presence of other people, and Arthur always ran around in half-down pants.
Karina Bagdasarova admits that she has a difficult character, she sometimes cannot control herself. This can only be done by her husband Denis Kozyr, who not only pacifies his beloved wife, but also understands her.
Cities that evoke pleasant feelings for Karina: Nizhny Novgorod, because she was born there, Yekaterinburg, where she was on tour with her parents as a child, Saratov, where Denis's parents live. And, of course, Moscow, which is as "mad" as Karina herself.
