Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and work. Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka

Palliative medicine doctor, philanthropist, public figure, executive director of the Fair Aid Foundation since 2007. President of the VALE Hospice International Foundation, member of the board of the Vera Hospice Foundation. In January 2012, she became one of the founders of the League of Voters.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow into a military family. It was noted that Glinka’s mother Galina Poskrebysheva is a famous vitamin doctor and author of books on cooking.

In 1986, Glinka graduated from the Second Medical Institute named after Pirogov, receiving a diploma in the specialty "pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist". During my studies I worked in intensive care unit one of the Moscow clinics (according to other sources, “Elizaveta Glinka did not work in her specialty for a day”). In the same year, Glinka emigrated to the United States with her husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, a descendant of a famous family to which the composer Mikhail Glinka belonged (in some media publications, however, it was claimed that Elizaveta Glinka herself is a descendant of the composer Glinka) .

In America, Glinka, on the initiative of her husband, began working in a hospice and, in her own words, was shocked by the human attitude towards hopeless patients in these institutions (“These people are happy,” Glinka later recalled. “They have the opportunity to say goodbye to their relatives, to get something out of life.” - important"). In 1991, Glinka received a second medical education, graduating from Dartmouth medical school(Dartmouth Medical School) specializing in " palliative medicine": doctors of this specialty provide symptomatic care to incurable patients, primarily with oncological diseases(some media indicated that she “became an oncologist” in the USA).

In 1994, Glinka, in her own words, “learned that, following St. Petersburg, they were opening a hospice in Moscow,” met and became friends with its chief physician, Vera Millionshchikova. In the late 90s, Glinka moved to Kyiv, where her husband worked under a contract. Having learned that there was no system of care for the dying in Ukraine, Glinka organized a patronage palliative care service in Kyiv and the first hospice wards in the surgical department of the oncology center. In September 2001, the American foundation VALE Hospice International (Glinka was mentioned in the media as the founder and president of this organization) founded the first free hospice in Ukraine in Kyiv. When Gleb Glinka's two-year contract expired, the family returned to the United States, but Elizaveta Glinka continued to regularly visit the Kiev hospice and participate in its work. She also said that back in the 90s she tried to open a branch of the fund in Russia, but could not: “Officials resisted, citing the law on the registration of commercial foreign enterprises.”

In 2007, when her mother fell ill, Glinka moved to Moscow. In July of the same year she founded charitable foundation"Fair Aid" and became its executive director. Initially, it was assumed that the foundation would provide palliative care to non-cancer patients, for whom there were no hospices in Russia, but subsequently the circle of its wards expanded significantly. The organization was engaged in helping low-income patients and other socially vulnerable categories of the population, including people without specific place residence. Since 2007, every week on Wednesdays, the foundation’s volunteers went to the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where they distributed food, clothing and medicine to the homeless, and also provided them with medical care. In 2012, more than 50 low-income families from Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk, Tyumen and other cities of Russia.

In August 2010, the Fair Aid Foundation organized a collection of assistance for victims of forest fires that engulfed various regions countries. This charity campaign, as noted by the media, brought Glinka all-Russian fame. In the winter of 2010-2011, for freezing people, the foundation founded by Glinka organized heating points for the homeless and collected tens of kilograms of humanitarian aid.

In 2012, Glinka also began to actively participate in the socio-political life of Russia. On January 16, 2012, she, along with other public figures, including Yuri Shevchuk, Grigory Chkhartishvili, Leonid Parfenov, Dmitry Bykov, Olga Romanova, Sergei Parkhomenko, Pyotr Shkumatov and Rustem Adagamov, became the founder of the “League of Voters” - an association advocating fair elections. It was with this circumstance that the media associated the unscheduled tax audit of the Fair Aid Foundation, as a result of which on January 26, 2012, the organization’s accounts were blocked - for the first time in its entire history. Already on February 1, the accounts were unblocked, and the fund continued its work.

In April 2012, Glinka, as part of a delegation from the League of Voters, visited Astrakhan, where supporters of former mayoral candidate Oleg Shein had been on a hunger strike since March, demanding a review of the election results due to alleged fraud. The purpose of the delegation was to draw public attention to the current situation; During the trip, Glinka managed to convince six participants in the action, whose health condition had significantly deteriorated, to stop their hunger strike. At the end of April, Shein himself stopped the protest, saying that he would continue to seek the cancellation of the election results through the courts. On June 15 of the same year, the court refused to satisfy Shein’s demands.

In July 2012, Glinka and her foundation organized a collection of items for victims of the devastating flood in Krymsk. She also participated in raising funds for victims of the disaster: on July 17, during a charity auction, which was also organized by Ksenia Sobchak, more than 16 million rubles were collected.

Glinka is a member of the board of the Russian hospice fund "Vera", created in 2006. She was also mentioned in the media as a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a member of the board of trustees of the Country of the Deaf Foundation for the Rehabilitation of People with Hearing Problems. In addition to Kyiv and Moscow, Glinka supervised hospice work in other cities - in Russia, as well as in Armenia and Serbia. Mentioning that hospices opened in Tula, Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Ulyanovsk, Omsk, Kemerovo, Astrakhan, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Smolensk, she drew public attention to insufficient attention to the training of future palliative medicine specialists; According to Glinka, there are “cases when in the regions doctors have no idea what hospices are.” “Hospice is not a house of death. It is a decent life to the end,” she said in an interview.

Glinka (Doctor Lisa) is known as an active blogger (LJ user doctor_liza): since 2005, she has been writing on LiveJournal about the activities of the Fair Aid organization. In 2010, Glinka became a laureate of the ROTOR network competition in the “Blogger of the Year” category.

Elizaveta Glinka is an Orthodox Christian. In interviews, she many times expressed her negative attitude towards euthanasia.

Many politicians, musicians and others helped Glinka’s charitable activities famous people. Alexander Chuev, then a State Duma deputy from A Just Russia, became the president of the Fair Aid Foundation in 2007; the chairman of this party, Sergei Mironov, also provided active assistance to the work of the foundation (in an interview, Glinka explained that the name of the foundation was her personal gratitude to Mironov). Participated in the foundation's charitable events

It was noted that despite her busy schedule, Glinka reads a lot, her favorite writer is Chekhov; When it comes to music, she prefers classics and old jazz.

Elizaveta Glinka and her husband have three sons, one of them is adopted. Glinka's eldest son is an artist. According to some sources, Glinka is a citizen of the United States and has no Russian citizenship: they wrote that this is why she does not head the Fair Aid Foundation herself, but is only its executive director (“ non-profit foundations cannot be created by non-residents").

On December 25, 2016, Glinka died in a Tu-154 crash near Sochi. She accompanied a shipment of medicines to Syria for the Tishreen University Hospital in Latakia.

Elizaveta Glinka- Russian public figure, human rights activist and philanthropist. Also known as Doctor Lisa.

Biography of Elizaveta Glinka

Elizaveta Glinka born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow. Elizabeth's father Petr Sidorov- military man, and mother - Galina Poskrebyshev a - nutritionist, culinary specialist and TV presenter. Elizabeth’s family also included two of her cousins, who were left without parents.

After graduating from school, Elizaveta entered the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute to major in pediatric resuscitation and anesthesiology. In 1986 she graduated from college, after which she married Gleb Glebovich Glinka and in 1990 she left for the USA. In the USA, Elizabeth received a second higher education specializing in palliative medicine. While living in the USA, Glinka became acquainted with the work of hospices and began collaborating with them.

In the mid-1990s, Elizaveta returned to Russia, where, together with her husband, she took part in the opening of a doctor Vera Millionshchikova First Moscow Hospice. In 1999, Elizaveta and her husband went to Ukraine, where they opened a hospice at the Kyiv Cancer Hospital.

In 2007, Elizabeth founded the international public organization in Moscow under the name “Fair Aid”, sponsored by the “Fair Russia” party. The activities of the organization are to provide material support and medical care people suffering from cancer, low-income people and homeless people.

In 2010 Glinka collected material assistance for victims of forest fires.

In 2012, she organized a collection of donations for flood victims in Krymsk. With its help, we managed to collect more than 16 million rubles.

In 2014, with the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, Elizabeth took part in providing assistance to citizens living in the territories of the DPR and LPR. In the same year, together with the All-Russian People's Fund, Glinka organized the “We are United” rally, which took place in the center of Moscow.

Since 2015, Dr. Lisa has repeatedly visited Syria on humanitarian missions.

On December 25, 2016, Elizabeth tragically died in a plane crash near Sochi. She accompanied the party on board the plane medicines to Syria and for the Tishreen University Hospital in Latakia. She was identified by DNA testing in early 2017.

After her death, Elizaveta Glinka was awarded the medal “25 Years of the Federal Customs Service of Russia” for active interaction with customs authorities and the medal “For Purity of Thoughts and Nobility of Deeds” for her invaluable contribution to the triumph of Goodness and Peace on earth.

In 2018 it became known that the director Oksana Karas plans to make a film about Elizaveta Glinka called "Doctor Lisa", main role in which actress Chulpan Khamatova will perform.

Personal life of Elizaveta Glinka

Elizaveta Glinka was married to Gleb Glebovich Glinka. Gleb's father is a Russian poet and literary critic Gleb Alexandrovich Glinka. Grandfather Gleb was a Russian journalist, publicist, literary critic Alexander Sergeevich Glinka, who published under a pseudonym Volzhsky. Gleb Glebovich lives in the USA, where he practices law.

Elizaveta and Gleb have three children: sons Konstantin, Alexei and foster Ilya. On this moment Konstantin And Alexei live in the USA with their father, and Ilya- in Saratov.

Elizaveta Glinka adhered to Orthodox religious beliefs. I have always been against euthanasia.

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When on December 25, 2016, a report was received about a transport disaster - a crashed plane - no one thought that “Dr. Lisa” was on board - an activist and social activist, a doctor and incredibly generous soul person Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka. But DNA testing confirmed that Lisa was on board the plane, castaway in the Sochi region.

Study, work and social activities

Lisa was born in the Russian capital in 1962 in the family of a military man, Pyotr Sidorov, and a nutritionist, Galina Ivanovna Poskrebysheva, author of books on correct use vitamins and cooking. Mom also worked on television. In addition to the daughter and son, the family raised orphans cousins. After school, the girl became a student at the Second Medical Institute. Pirogov, choosing the specialty “pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist”.

But the turning point in her fate was the meeting with her future husband, an American lawyer of Russian origin, Gleb Glinka. In 1990, she and her husband emigrated to the United States of America, where Elizaveta Petrovna began working in a hospice. She saw how a man doomed to death leads a dignified life, feeling surrounded by attention and without losing human dignity.

In the States, Lisa Glinka continued her studies - she graduated from medical school at Dartmouth - she was interested in palliative medicine, in which doctors strive to improve the quality of life of doomed patients with cancer or other deadly diseases. This direction of medicine does not involve treatment, but psychological assistance and learning to live every second. At the end of the 90s, the Glinkas moved to Ukraine - Gleb had a contract for temporary work in Kyiv. Here Elizaveta Petrovna organized the first palliative wards at oncology centers and helped create the first hospice.

She created the Fair Aid Foundation after her seriously ill mother passed away in Moscow in 2007. The fund was financed by parties and patrons of the arts in Russia and the USA. Here, not only seriously ill people, but also disadvantaged people without a specific place of residence could receive help and psychological support. “Doctor Lisa” (that’s what they began to call her) visited the capital’s train stations, trying to feed the homeless and treat their wounds.

She attracted famous politicians, popular actors, singers, and media personalities to her activities. For some period I became actively involved in political life Russia. She had high awards. With the height of the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine, Lisa Glinka rushed to help wounded children and seriously ill people who found themselves on the line of fire. She helped the hearing impaired through the charity organization “Country of the Deaf” and contributed to the opening of hospices in many Russian cities. She was loved and hated, criticized and threatened. And she did what she considered necessary.

The tragic death of Doctor Lisa

In the last week of 2016, a transport disaster occurred - a Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs plane crashed near Sochi. The flight flew from Moscow to Latakia, a Syrian city. This happened near the runway of Sochi airport. There were 92 people on board this flight, including artists from the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble, journalists from several TV channels, the crew and Lisa Glinka, head of the Fair Aid Foundation.

This news shocked everyone - no one wanted to believe in the death of so many people and the representative of the Russian charitable movement, “Doctor Lisa.” The causes of the plane crash were never named - either an error by the pilots, or dispatchers, or overload on board. There was even a version of a deliberate terrorist attack. Elizaveta Petrovna accompanied a shipment of medicines to Syria for the Tishreen University Hospital and this was not her first trip to hot spot peace. She has already brought medicines and clothes, water and food here. She was identified after a DNA examination, which was carried out in January 2017. On January 16, 2017, a farewell took place on the territory of the Novodevichy Convent, in the Assumption Church. Here lies the ashes of the one who had no idea of ​​peace during her lifetime.

But Elizaveta Glinka, whose cause of death was a plane tragedy, continues to live in the hearts of millions of people.

Personal life

With her husband Gleb Glinka, the son of a Russian poet and literary critic, who emigrated from Russia in the second wave, the grandson of journalist Alexander Sergeevich Glinka, Liza met back in student years, at the exhibition of expressionists. The young man immediately drew attention to the miniature girl. But it took her time to understand - she fell in love! Gleb was 14 years older than Lisa, but this did not stop the lovers and they soon got married.

They had to experience a lot and test the strength of the family rear - the husband was always her support and wall, comrade-in-arms and like-minded person. And she constantly accompanied him on business trips and gave birth to two sons - Konstantin and Alexei. And they also had Foster-son Ilya. Now the older boys live in the USA, the younger one lives in Saratov.

Almost no one knew about that trip to Syria... All the more unexpected and tragic was the news about the plane crash... It seemed that Elizaveta Glinka and death were incompatible phenomena. She was a great lover of life and managed to generously give this feeling to those around her. For many, its scale social activities became clear only after the death of “Doctor Lisa.” On January 16, 2017, a military children's sanatorium in Yevpatoria and the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Grozny, and a hospice in Yekaterinburg were named in her honor.

Much more will be written and said about Elizaveta Glinka. Everything she did to save people’s lives can only be overestimated or correctly appreciated by those whom she helped. Dr. Lisa always spoke with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm about her activities and the work of the Fair Aid Foundation, but almost never talked about her personal life. Meanwhile, Elizaveta and Gleb Glinka lived together for 30 happy years.

Swift romance

An exhibition of expressionists was held at the House of Artists in Moscow, where Elizaveta met her future husband, Gleb Glinka. Young Lisa asked the stranger for a lighter, and he asked her for her phone number. The man was much older than her and seemed very old to her. But in response to a request to call, for some reason she agreed. When asked about a date, she said that she had an exam in forensic medicine.

He met her at the morgue and was shocked by the difference between Russian and American morgues. Gleb Glinka was Russian by birth, but was born and raised in America. Nevertheless, he was always drawn to his historical homeland.

According to Gleb Glebovich, within a week after they met, they both knew that they would definitely get married and live together all their lives. She always liked strong men. Elizaveta Petrovna was attracted not physical strength, but the ability to make decisions and bear responsibility for them. If the man was still smart and educated, then she could well fall in love with him. Gleb Glebovich Glinka studied and brilliantly graduated from college in English literature, and then from law school, with the same excellent grades. Much later, already in Russia at the age of 60, he passed the Russian bar exam and also excelled.

He was ready to stay in Russia, next to his chosen one, but Lisa just laughed: “You will be lost here!” In 1986, she graduated from the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute and received the profession of pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist. And until 1990 they lived in Moscow, then they left for America together, along with their eldest son Konstantin.

Between America and Russia

In America, Elizaveta Glinka graduated from medical school with a specialty in palliative medicine. Gleb Glebovich advised her to pay attention to the hospice, which was located not far from their home. Lisa began to help hopeless patients. She spent five years studying how hospices operate and what difficulties they face. And at the same time I understood that it is possible and necessary to alleviate people’s suffering.

Later they will return to Russia at the request of Elizabeth, spend 2 years in Kyiv due to Gleb’s contract. And everywhere Doctor Lisa will help people. In Moscow, already having two sons, she will work with the First Moscow Hospice, and in Kyiv she will create her first hospice. The most amazing thing is that Gleb Glinka will always support his wife in everything. He, like no one else, understood: helping those in need was as natural a need for her as breathing.

Measure of good

When Dr. Lisa’s mother fell into a coma and was in the Burdenko clinic, Elizaveta Glinka bought meat every day, especially mom's favorite, cooked it, ground it into a paste so that it could be fed from a tube. She knew that her mother couldn’t taste cooked food, but nevertheless, for two and a half years, she came to the hospital twice a day and fed her mother, holding her hand. This was all she was.

Gleb and Elizaveta raised two sons. But a third boy appeared in their family - Ilya. He was adopted in infancy, but when the boy was 13 years old, his adoptive mother died. When Doctor Lisa began to tell her husband about the fate of the boy, he immediately realized: he would become their son. He again supported his wife in her decision.

He could probably prohibit his wife from engaging in her activities. Elizaveta Glinka herself spoke of her readiness to stop working if it interfered with her family. But Gleb Glebovich believed that he had no moral right to do so.

“We were very happy together”

She loved her family and did not like to talk about them in interviews. She wanted to protect her loved ones from publicity, especially when threats began to be made against her. Dr. Lisa tried to spend weekends with her family under any circumstances. The only time she changed this habit was on December 25, 2016.

It was difficult for Gleb Glebovich to give gifts to his wife. New thing literally in a couple of weeks you could see it on someone you knew or even on her ward from the Paveletsky station, where Dr. Lisa fed and treated the homeless. And again he did not protest. But she couldn’t help it and was even proud that her charges looked better than other homeless people.
When she first went to the conflict zone in Donbass to save seriously ill children, he realized how dangerous it was. But she again went at the behest of her heart to where she was needed.

On December 25, 2016, she boarded a plane bound for Syria. Doctor Lisa was carrying medicine for the university hospital. She will never return from this flight.
Gleb Glinka still cannot come to terms with the loss. He refuses to accept the fact that his beloved will never be around again. He will write in the afterword to her book: “I shared my life with her...”

Dr. Lisa married an American citizen and lived happily with him for 30 years, until death separated them.

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and labor. On December 25, 2016, the lives of 92 people were cut short in Sochi. Among those flying on the Tu-154 military plane to Syria was the famous pediatric resuscitator Elizaveta Glinka. Until recently, Russians did not believe that the favorite of many, Doctor Lisa, had died. They said that she simply could not fly on that plane. And this is partly true. Literally in last days Before departure, she begged the military to take her to Syria. Elizabeth flew there to bring medicine for children with cancer.

After visiting a hospital in Syria, Dr. Lisa for a long time raised funds for sick children there, as well as for numerous sick people in Syrian cities. They were waiting for her as the only hope for life. But they didn’t wait. The plane crashed 2 minutes after takeoff.

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and work. Elizaveta Glinka was born on February 20, 1962 in the family of a military man and a vitaminologist. Lisa dreamed of becoming a doctor since childhood. In 1986, the girl graduated from the 2nd Pirogov Medical Institute and received the specialty “pediatric anesthesiologist.” When Lisa was studying, she worked part-time in the intensive care unit at a Moscow clinic.

However, after graduation, Lisa met her future husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, and emigrated to the United States. In America, Elizabeth began working in a hospice and was amazed at how they treated dying and hopelessly ill people. Having received her second medical education in the USA, Elizaveta Glinka began to dream of opening hospices in her homeland.

And this opportunity soon appeared to her. Her husband was sent on a contract to Kyiv, and Elizabeth followed him. She opened her first hospice in Kyiv. When the husband's contract expired, the family returned to the United States. However, Glinka regularly visited the hospice in Ukraine and participated in its work.

In 2007, Elizabeth’s mother fell ill, and she moved to Moscow with her. There she founded the Fair Aid charity foundation and became its director. Elizabeth herself, in addition to managing the foundation, was involved in helping low-income patients. Doctor Lisa was recognized in 2010, when her foundation organized a fundraiser to help those affected by forest fires. In 2014, Doctor Lisa carried sick and wounded children from bullets in the Donbass.

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and work. Elizaveta Glinka and her husband have three children, one of whom is adopted. The couple's eldest son is an artist.

Doctor Lisa always knew what dangerous work is engaged, but she did it to save the lives of others, those who needed help. She was not afraid of pain and was never indifferent. The death of this woman causes special pain, which is almost impossible to cope with.