He actively participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Great Seimas of Vilnius, and was briefly arrested by the Tsarist police.

He spoke hundreds of times at the Duma on issues ranging from local Lithuanian matters to introducing a bill granting women equal voting rights.

As an attorney, Bulota worked on the defense in several political trials including those of Ilya Fondaminsky, signers of the Vyborg Manifesto, Vincas Kapsukas.

After his nephew made an attempt on the life of Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras in 1929, Bulota was briefly jailed at the Varniai concentration camp and then ordered to leave Lithuania.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Bulota was arrested and executed in the Ponary massacre on 16 August 1941.

After graduation from the university, Bulota was drafted for the mandatory service in the Imperial Russian Army and was promoted to praporshchik.

[1] He worked on several political cases, including the defense of Ilya Fondaminsky,[3] Trudoviks who signed the Vyborg Manifesto,[4] Vincas Kapsukas, and Leonas Prūseika [lt].

He financially supported the publication of Varpas and helped Jonas Jablonskis to edit the 70,000-word Lithuanian–Polish dictionary of Antanas Juška.

[1] Tsarist police searched his residence in connection with the trials of Sietynas Society and Liudas Vaineikis, but Bulota managed to avoid persecution.

[2] Bulota joined several Masonic lodges, including Polar Star (headed by Maksim Kovalevsky) in Saint Petersburg in 1908,[12] Litwa in 1913, and Białoruś in 1914.

He personally toured the devastated Suwałki Governorate and organized soup kitchens and medical aid stations.

[15] It propagated ideas of the Lithuanian Socialist People's Union [lt] (Lietuvos socialistų liaudininkų sąjunga) (Bulota was a member of its Central Committee).

[13] Invited by the Lithuanian Relief Fund (Lietuvos šelpimo fondas), Bulota together with his wife Aleksandra Bulotienė (as a representative of Žiburėlis society) and writer Žemaitė travelled to the United States in 1916.

[1] He was elected to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and became the head of its judicial department.

[16] Bulota was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly in the Vitebsk electoral district as a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

[1] As an attorney, Bulota defended members of the Polish Military Organisation (PMO) accused of the attempted coup against the Lithuanian government in August–September 1919.

He was a member of the electoral commission that organized the show elections to the People's Seimas[20] and headed the legal department of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR.

[5] After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Bulota was arrested and executed in the Ponary massacre on 16 August 1941.

[1] Andrius Bulota published four volumes of collected works of Žemaitė,[13] while Aleksandra translated several short stories to Russian.