Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka is a doctor, a specialist in the field of palliative medicine, the creator and director of the first free Ukrainian hospice, opened on September 5, 2001 in Kyiv. About 15 patients are inpatients there, in addition, the “Care for the Sick at Home” program covers more than 100 more people. In addition to Ukraine, Elizaveta Glinka oversees hospice work in Moscow and Serbia.

In all the photographs, next to the patients, she has a lively smile and shining eyes. How can a person let hundreds of people pass through his heart, bury them - and not become bitter, not become covered with a crust of indifference, and not become infected with the professional cynicism of doctors? But she has had a huge deal on her shoulders for five years now - a free hospice (“you can’t charge money for it!”).

Dr. Lisa, her staff and volunteers have a motto: hospice is a place to live. And a full life, good quality. Even if the clock counts. Here good conditions, delicious food, quality medicines. “Everyone who has visited us says: how good it is here! Like at home! I want to live here!”

Readers of our site have long been familiar with her amazing stories - short sketches from the life of a hospice. It would seem like a few lines of simple text, but for some reason the whole worldview has changed, everything has become different...

Now Elizaveta Petrovna herself really needs help. For several months, Dr. Lisa has been living in Moscow: here in the hospital her mother, Galina Ivanovna, is seriously ill, and has been in the Burdenko neuroreanimation department for several months. She is in a 4th degree coma. With the slightest movement (turning over on her back, for example), her blood pressure rises to critical, which, if diagnosed, could mean the highest risk of death.

But Dr. Lisa was unable to stop being a doctor for these few months: at the hospital she helps many other people: with recommendations on finding funds for treatment, and most importantly, with advice and information about what treatment, according to the law, should be provided free of charge. The management of the clinic asked Elizaveta Petrovna to find another clinic for her mother within a week, despite the fact that Galina Ivanovna’s stay in the hospital would be fully paid for. However, in its current state, transportation is impossible; it would mean death.

Here is an excerpt from Elizaveta Petrovna’s letter to the director of the hospital: “Mom is being monitored in the department by the attending physician, who is well aware of the peculiarities of the course of her disease since the second operation. Care is provided by highly qualified nurses on a paid basis, the nurses perfectly perform everything related to the implementation of appointments.

This will prolong her life. Not for long, as I am aware of the lesions and consequences of her disease. In my opinion, transporting such a patient to a new medical institution can significantly worsen the already difficult situation. In addition to the medical aspect, there is an ethical aspect. Mom wanted to be buried in Russia in Moscow.

Personally, as a colleague and as a human being, I ask you to enter into my situation, leaving my mother in the hospital in which she was operated on and is being treated by knowledgeable doctors - those whom I trust.”

Dear readers, we ask for your deepest prayers for a successful resolution of the current situation!

Transcript of the program “Guest”Thomas "", which was recently broadcast on the radio "Radonezh ", prepared by the website "Mercy".

- Hello, dear friends. Today we have an amazing guest. This fragile, wonderful woman's name is Elizaveta Glinka. She is a palliative medicine doctor. Hello, Elizaveta!

- Hello!

— We learned about you from LiveJournal, where your name is “Doctor Lisa.” Why?

— Because I never had an information platform, and one former patient and close friend of mine said that I should start a live journal. And since it was a little difficult for me to open it and there was little time, I actually received this magazine as a gift. And “Doctor Lisa” is the so-called nickname that my friend gave me. And since then, I’ve had this magazine for a year and a half - and now everyone calls me “Doctor Lisa.”

— Why did you suddenly decide to connect your life with medicine?

“Because I wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember.” Even when I was a little girl, I always knew - not that I wanted, but I always knew that I would be a doctor.

“Nevertheless, there are still different directions in medicine. And what you do is perhaps one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, because working in a hospice, working with patients who may have no chance of further life is probably one of the hardest jobs ?

- You know, it is always very difficult for me to answer such a question, because when you work in your place, your work does not seem to you the hardest. I love my job very much, and, for example, it seems to me that the hardest work is as a cardiac surgeon or psychiatrist. Or, if we don’t relate to medicine, from sellers who deal with a large number of people with different personalities.

— Why did you decide to do this? There are many different profiles in medicine - and you came to oncology...

“First I came to intensive care and autophysiology, and then life turned out so that I had to move from Russia to another country, where my husband took me to get acquainted with the hospice - and I saw what it looks like abroad. And, in fact, what I saw completely changed my life. And I set my goal to have the same departments in my country where people can die free and with dignity; I really wanted hospices to become available to all segments of the population. The hospital I did is in Kyiv, Ukraine - and in Moscow I I cooperate with the First Moscow Hospice, which was built fourteen years ago - and now we have been close friends for fourteen years with its founder, chief physician Vera Millionshchikova, quite well known here in medical circles.

The first hospice in Russia was built in the city of St. Petersburg, in the village of Lakhta Leningrad region four years earlier than the first Moscow one. That is, I knew that the beginnings of the hospice movement in Russia already existed, that is, the movement had already begun. And to say that I started from scratch is not true. There were developments - but for example, when we met the employees of the First Moscow Hospice, there was a mobile service and a hospital was just being organized.

And four years later, my life turned out in such a way that I was forced to leave for Ukraine, where my husband got a job under a contract with a foreign company for two years - and thus I ended up in Kyiv. This is where I discovered that, probably, my volunteer activities and the help of the First Moscow Hospice would have to be expanded in the sense that in Ukraine there was no place at all where doomed dying cancer patients were placed. That is, these patients were sent home to die, and if they were very lucky, they were left in multi-bed wards and hospitals in very poor conditions. And don't forget that this was six years ago, that is economic situation it was just terrible after the breakup Soviet Union- and these patients were literally in terrifying situations.

— Due to your profession and due to the characteristics of those people who are your patients, your patients and simply the people you help, you are faced with death every day. In principle, such questions of life and death, when a person first encounters them, as a rule, radically change his outlook on life. There are many such examples that can be given - from life, from literature, from cinema, etc. How does a person who faces such problems every day feel?

- Difficult question. Well, you see, on the one hand, this is my job, which I want to do well. And I probably feel the same thing that any person feels, because, of course, I feel very sorry for the patients who pass away from life, and even more I feel sorry for the patients who pass away in conditions of poverty. It is very painful to look at those patients who have the so-called pain syndrome - that is, those symptoms that, unfortunately, sometimes accompany the process of dying from cancer. But on the other hand, I must not forget that I am a professional, that this is my job, and I try, when going beyond the hospice, not to endure these experiences, not to bring them, for example, into my family and not to bring it’s in the company of people I communicate with, you know?

Because anyway, due to the circumstances in which I work, many, if I name my place of work and say what I do, expect to see some kind of guilty look, some kind of humiliation in the conversation - do you understand? I want to say that those who work with the dying are the same ordinary people, like us, and I want to add that dying people are also the same as us, they talk a lot about this and write a lot. But it seems to me that no one can hear and understand that the difference between that person who will die soon and me and you, for example, is that there the individual knows that he has very little time left to live - but you and I simply do not we know when and at what minute this will happen. And that's the only difference, you know?

Well, the fact that this happens often before our eyes is a specificity of the profession, I guess I’m just used to it. But this does not mean that my staff - for example, in the hospice - do not cry and do not worry. And in general in Ukraine it is very emotional people- much more emotional than people in Moscow, although I am a Muscovite by birth and by character. But I see that, of course, the staff is worried and crying - but with experience, something like this is developed... not that they become colder, but we just understand... Someone understands that they know something about life another, someone simply understands that they just need to pull themselves together in order to help the next patient. That's how we cope.

- Are there many people who believe that there is something else behind this life?
- I think that out of ten patients, seven will hope for something else beyond, and probably three patients who say - I don’t know if they really think so, but they tell me that there Nothing will happen. Two will strongly doubt, and one will be absolutely sure that there there is nothing, and this earthly life will end - and there that's all, there- empty.

— Do you somehow try to talk to people about these topics?
- Only if the patient himself wants it. Since a hospice is still a secular institution, I must, must respect the interests of the patient. And if this Orthodox Christian, and he wants to talk about it - I’ll bring him a priest, if he’s a Catholic, then he’ll get a priest, if he’s a Jew, then we’ll bring him a rabbi. I’m not a priest, you see, so yes, I will listen and I can tell him what I believe and what I don’t believe.

And there are patients with whom I do not advertise my Orthodoxy and simply level the conversation, because some patients do not accept the Orthodox faith - that is their point of view. In Ukraine there is now a wave of sick people who have joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect. And they are really being robbed: just recently a woman died - I wrote about her, Tanya - who, before entering the hospice, where these “brothers” and “sisters” brought her... The first question they asked when they entered: “Where can we sign power of attorney for retirement, who will do this for us?” I say: “Who is this “brother”? Which?" "In Christ!" That is, Tanya was a single woman who was in exile in Magadan for twenty years. And when she returned to Kyiv, they saw this unhappy, sick, lonely woman and “joined” her into the sect... And you know that such patients are weak, very subject to some kind of influence...

And our second conversation was about the fact that they had drawn up a will, according to which Tanya gave them all the real estate. And since this was the desire of this patient... Inside I understand that this is not very nice in relation to this woman, it is unfair, but her desire... She really waited - they came once a day, for five minutes, talking about what they love her, and she said: “Elizaveta Petrovna, my brothers and sisters came to me, look how they love me - they are our God Jehovah!..”. Here. And I couldn’t tell her that “you have the wrong religion,” because she had no one at all. And this is what she clung to two weeks before her death - I have no right to tear off this last attachment of hers in life, so sometimes I just don’t talk about this topic.

— You mentioned that you wrote about this woman, about Tanya. You already said - you are just known as a wonderful author of prose works, short stories - and behind each of them there is human destiny. There is an opinion that a writer is not one who can write, but one who cannot help but write. Why are you writing?

— I absolutely disagree with being called a writer, because a writer is probably someone who has received a special education or is more well-read than me. Indeed, I don’t want to show off. In general, the first story... well, not even a story - it’s really my diary. For me - it was a complete surprise when I published it - I had twenty friends there with whom we exchanged: where I was going, what diapers I was buying, something else - that is, purely hospice friends who knew a little bit what was in my life happens...

And then I met one family, the family was Jewish - in my hospice - and they were so different from ours Orthodox image life that I began my short observation - and shared a short story of this family. And the next day, opening the mail, I was completely shocked by the flurry of responses - it was a complete surprise! But, since purely physically I don’t have time to write large diaries, and I’ll even honestly say that I’m not very interested in the opinion of those who read me, I’m interested in what they themselves... I want them to hear, because, as a rule, I have there are no happy stories with happy endings - that is, I write destinies that touched me in one way or another.

— Were there any responses that you especially remember?
— What surprised me is the number of people who every day experience this pain from the loss of cancer patients - this is the most a large number of there were responses. Again, through the publication of these stories, I probably received about forty-three responses from patients who sought help. That is, this has now become such a platform - for example, now we are literally consulting virtually a woman from the Krasnodar Territory... From Ukhta, from regions of Russia, from Odessa - where hospices are not available - but they read that there is a place where these patients can help somehow - and so they write...

I was shocked by the absence, the information vacuum, which concerns the process of dying of patients - that it is possible to alleviate the symptoms, that there are drugs that somehow alleviate them... What surprised me from the responses - many were sure that the services of such a hospice - at the level of services provided at the First Moscow Hospice - paid. And it is very difficult to dissuade them... And, probably, this is my favorite credo, that hospices should be free and accessible to absolutely all segments of the population. I don’t care what kind of patient I have - a deputy, a businessman, a homeless person or a person on parole. And the selection criteria for admission to a hospice in both Russia and Ukraine - in addition to those that the City Health Department requires of me - are fatal diseases with a life prognosis of six months or less.

— Tell me, please, do you learn anything from your patients?

- Yes. Actually, this is a school of life. I learn from them not every day, but every minute. You can learn patience from almost every patient. They are all different, but there are those who endure what happened to them in life so patiently and with such dignity that I am sometimes very surprised. I am learning wisdom... It seems to me that Shakespeare wrote - I can’t vouch for the literalness of the quote, but approximately the following words: “those who die are stunning with their harmony, because they have the wisdom of life.” And this is really so, literally... You know, they still have little strength to speak, so they apparently think through some phrases and sometimes say things that, for how many years I’ve been working, shock me so deeply that yes, I really I learn from them.

And through some patients, I sometimes learn what not to do, because how you live is how you die, and indeed, not all patients are angels. For some reason, many people, reading my live journal, say: “Where do you find such amazing people?” Do you understand? No, they are not amazing - that is, I am saying that there are capricious requests - well, and cold, calculating people. And when I looked at how they passed away, and how the family was destroyed - or vice versa, how the family reacted, for myself personally, I probably came to the conclusion that, God willing, I would probably never do in my life. Therefore, we learn good things, we learn from mistakes, because it all happens before our eyes.

I have an amazing priest dying at the moment - the first Orthodox priest who is dying in my ward, today he turned sixty years old, they called him... And I’ll tell you: the thread was carried out in fifteen days, I went into the ward five times to communicate. And from him I probably learned more than from all my patients... And journalists recently came to my hospital and counted - 2,356 patients passed through my hands - and from one I received what in fourteen years of work I had not received from the rest... So I asked - father - what is humility? And he has been a priest for thirty-three years - can you imagine? And hereditary - his father was a priest, and his son is now a priest. He's an amazing, amazing person. And he says: the greatest humility is not to offend those who are weaker than you.
I tell him that this is the most difficult thing in life - not to offend those who are weaker than you, not to shout... And we don’t notice these little things. That is, it could not be some kind of dialogue, but he simply says things that make you think: how did I not understand this, and how did I not know this? This is our father...

— Kudos to you for what you do and thank you very much for taking the time to have this conversation!
- God bless...

Dr. Lisa Glinka was a real hero Russian charity. Kingdom of Heaven to Elizabeth Petrovna and all those who died in this disaster.

Today we remember Doctor Lisa - passionate, selfless, sometimes tough, sincere and very lively. Below is her biography and her statements from various interviews.

Biography

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (Poskrebysheva), known under the online pseudonym “Doctor Lisa,” was born in Moscow on February 20, 1962 in Moscow into a military family. Mother of Elizaveta Glinka - famous doctor, author of cookery books and TV presenter Galina Poskrebysheva.

After graduating from the Second Moscow State Medical Institute named after Pirogov in 1986 with a degree in pediatric resuscitation and anesthesiology, she and her husband, an American lawyer of Russian origin, Gleb Glinka, left for the United States. There she began working in a hospice, and received a second medical education in palliative medicine from Dartmouth Medical School.

In the late nineties, Elizaveta Glinka and her husband, who got a job in Ukraine, moved to Kyiv. There she became the organizer of a patronage palliative care service and the first free hospice in Ukraine at an oncology center. After her husband’s contract ended, the family returned to the United States, but Elizaveta Glinka continued to support the Kiev hospice.

In 2007, after returning to Moscow, she founded and headed charitable foundation"Fair help". It was originally intended to provide hospice care to non-cancer patients. However, subsequently the organization had to take care of various categories of people in need, including the homeless and the poor. The foundation's volunteers distribute food, warm clothing and medicine to the homeless. Dozens of needy families also receive regular assistance different regions Russia.

In the summer of 2010, the Fair Aid Foundation participated in collecting assistance for victims of numerous forest fires. The campaign launched at that time attracted significant public attention to his activities. In the winter of 2010-2011, the foundation organized warming points for the homeless in Moscow.

In January 2012, Elizaveta Glinka became one of the founders of the League of Voters, which is associated with the unscheduled inspection of the fund and the temporary blocking of its accounts. In the fall of 2012, she was included in the Presidential Council Russian Federation on the development of civil society and human rights (HRC).

With the outbreak of the armed conflict in the southeast of Ukraine, Elizaveta Glinka took an active part in providing assistance to residents of the unrecognized republics, including the evacuation of wounded and sick children to Russia. These actions, as well as her statement that she did not see Russian troops, caused accusations from a number of former like-minded people.

Elizaveta Glinka was a member of the board of the Vera Hospice Foundation, created in 2006. In addition to Kyiv and Moscow, she oversaw the work of hospices in other cities of Russia, as well as in Armenia and Serbia. Being Orthodox person, she has repeatedly publicly opposed the legalization of euthanasia.

Elizaveta Glinka left behind three sons (two natural and one adopted).

For her work, Doctor Lisa has repeatedly become a laureate of various state and public awards and prizes. In particular, in May 2012, “for the achieved labor successes, many years of conscientious work, and active social activities,” she was awarded the Order of Friendship, in December 2014, “for her active civic position in protecting the human right to life,” she was awarded the Medal of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Hurry to do good”, in March 2015, “for a great contribution to charitable and social activities” - the insignia “For good deeds”.

In December 2016, Elizaveta Glinka became the first laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for achievements in human rights activities.

On the morning of December 25, 2016, a Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense crashed over the Black Sea near Sochi. Among its passengers was Elizaveta Glinka, who was accompanying a humanitarian cargo of medicines to a Syrian clinic.

About the profession

I wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember. Even when I was a little girl, I always knew - not that I wanted, but I always knew that I would be a doctor. When you work at your place, your work does not seem the hardest to you

About the cost of saving children

My task is to take out wounded and sick children so that they receive qualified free assistance, warm clothes, food and a supply of medicines. And I don't care how it's done.

At any cost, I emphasize and have spoken about this everywhere and will continue to say so. I will save you at any cost, I will negotiate with anyone, I will take you anywhere, even to China! If only he lived. Because I didn’t give this life to this child. And if someone takes it away, it’s not my business to figure out why and why. Because I'm a doctor. My job is to get him out of hell and put him in a normal hospital.

I work with those people whose beliefs are not shared by - well, I will say this - the overwhelming majority of society. These are the homeless, these are the poor, these are the poor, these are the sick. And finally, the mentally ill, there are especially many of them here now.

I work with outcasts and devotees. And not everyone understands me about this.

Six years ago, for example, there were people who helped our Fair Aid fund, gave me money, but said: “Not for the homeless.” And today, do you know what has changed? Today it’s like this: there are people who give money to the fund and say: “Only not for the homeless,” and there are people who give money and say: “Only for the homeless.”

My reaction to this is this: I respect freedom of choice. Therefore, I am grateful to everyone who helps me help.

In short, I don’t re-educate or convince anyone of anything. But I reserve the right to do as I consider necessary.

I am often asked: why do I help those I help? All this strange scary people. I answer: “Because they are people too. There are no other reasons."

You can’t reproach anyone with a piece of bread, not even a homeless person. Or rather, a homeless person in particular. You need to do the job and forget about it. Even if they deceive me. I would rather feed someone who is not very hungry anyway than accidentally refuse someone who really has nothing to eat.

There are times when this happens. I want to give up everything, take care of my three children, spend time with my family... But this is never connected with homeless or dying patients. This has to do with officials. In this regard, burnout occurred long ago and completely.

I stopped writing letters to authorities - except in some extreme cases. And as a rule, these letters are terribly humiliating. I don’t understand how government agencies responsible for social services can employ people who hate homeless people. In our state shelters, the sick are divided into categories, like chickens in a store: the disabled are fed three times a day, some other group - twice, a third group - once. There is no such thing in any country in the world!

But I don’t have “burnout” in relation to the sick and homeless. I don’t get tired of them, they don’t push me away. I love them and they love me. It only happens that I want to sleep... I found the following criterion: as long as I feel sorry for this person and I listen to him and feel sorry for him, then everything is still normal. But if I don’t care what he says, if I understand that I’m just automatically bandaging him, but I can’t hear him anymore, then I need to go to sleep.

The needs are great. If the blockade of the country by the Ukrainian army is not lifted, the situation may worsen.

About people, I won’t say that they are starving, but they eat little and poorly. Salaries are not very high. Winter is winter, if you don’t have your own garden, there’s nothing. People have a very bad time during the war. Add to this the endless shelling, which for some reason began after the elections in the United States. During this time, I visited Donbass twice: from behind the dividing line they start shooting at six in the evening, and do not stop until the morning - five hundred or more shells... A very tense situation in Gorlovka. But people do not give up, people live - and they need to be helped, while observing the rules that apply during war.

On February 20, Elizaveta Glinka, who saw her duty as helping the homeless and seriously ill, would have turned 56 years old. Some considered the famous human rights activist almost a saint, others accused her of lying and were sure that her work was at least ineffective. the site recalls what the whole country knew as Dr. Lisa was like.

February 19, 2018 · Text: Margarita Kochergina · Photo: Anna Salynskaya, Valery Sharifulin, Sergey Savostyanov, Mikhail Metzel, Arthur Lebedev/TASS, PhotoXPress, Instagram, Facebook, vk.com

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Elizaveta Glinka knew from childhood that she would become a doctor

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Fragile, but only in appearance, with large, understanding eyes that seemed to look straight into the soul, Elizaveta Glinka cared for the homeless, the sick and the dying. Despite constant criticism and even threats, Dr. Lisa did not retreat from her plans and achieved her goal - in both possible and impossible ways. The human rights activist could reach any person, sometimes by uttering only a few words.

Glinka believed that not a single event of the Fair Aid Foundation could take place without her direct participation, so she rushed to the hottest spots in the world. However, Elizaveta Petrovna was unable to save all those in need...

How it all began

Despite the fact that as a child Elizaveta Glinka was interested in ballet and music, she never faced the question of which university to enter. Little Lisa realized quite early that her purpose was to heal people.

The girl, who spent a lot of time in the hospital because her mother worked in an ambulance, one day became a doctor herself - a pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist.

The human rights activist began her charitable activities, thanks to which she became famous, much later, in the 2000s. And in the late 1980s, immediately after graduating from the institute, Elizaveta, who had many admirers, met her future husband Gleb Glinka, an American lawyer of Russian origin.

Elizaveta and Gleb met at an exhibition of expressionists. Glinka immediately became inflamed with passion for the slender girl. But it took Elizabeth a week to fall in love with her future husband. At first the girl was embarrassed by the fact that her boyfriend was 14 years older than her, but her feelings turned out to be stronger.

Subsequently, the spouses more than once made serious sacrifices for each other.

So, together with her husband, the doctor moved to the USA, then to Ukraine, then back to the States. And Gleb was sympathetic to the difficult and rather dangerous activities of his wife and never reproached the fact that Lisa could go to see a sick person at night. “Should I call a taxi or will they come for you?” - he asked habitually.

In the 1990s in America, Glinka first became acquainted with the hospice system when she entered Darmouth Medical School to study in palliative medicine. (a field of healthcare designed to improve the quality of life of seriously ill patients,- approx. website). This predetermined future fate Doctor Lisa.

Elizaveta created the first such organization in Kyiv and took part in the opening Russian fund assistance to the Vera hospice.

Elizaveta Glinka was criticized a lot for helping the homeless

They are people too

Elizabeth returned to Moscow only in 2007, when her mother became seriously ill. Soon Galina Ivanovna died. It was at that moment that Glinka, in order to cope with the pain, created the Fair Aid Foundation. And then she was first asked to look at a homeless man with cancer living near the Paveletsky station.

Since then, Glinka began to bring food and things there every Wednesday and independently treat the wounds of everyone in need. The philanthropist and her team were expected and idolized.

However, at first, the public attacked Dr. Lisa with serious criticism, accusing her of contributing to the increasing number of people without a fixed place of residence. Many did not understand why she cared about those who themselves did not want to make their lives a little better. Glinka always had a ready answer: “No one will help them except me, they are people too.”

She gave her own money to charity and only once regretted it. Glinka really wanted to buy her youngest son Ilya got an apartment, but spent all her savings on another charity event.

Soon, Elizabeth began to receive threats, and the basement in which the foundation was located was continually attacked by vandals.

However, Glinka continued to help the disadvantaged. Despite unflattering reviews about herself on the Internet, she once organized a charity striptease near the Kurskaya metro station in Moscow, which caused a heated discussion in society. However, the action was a success, and the guests who came to the event collected a lot of things and money for the homeless.

Elizabeth with her husband and son

Not an angel at all

Only in appearance, Elizabeth was a fragile woman who sometimes had to take a weight with her into the elevator to go down to the first floor (note site: her own weight was not enough for the mechanism to start moving).

In fact, nothing human was alien to the doctor: she loved to tell obscene jokes and bought stylish handbags (by the way, she was also criticized for this, wondering where she got the money for fashionable things). The philanthropist did not hide the fact that she was a rather conflicted person. Elizabeth could smash both an arrogant ward and an inactive official to smithereens. However, Glinka turned to government officials only in extreme cases.

Elizaveta did not, and could not, limit herself to helping the homeless and sick: she organized the collection of funds and necessary things for victims of fires in 2010, and two years later - during the flood in Krymsk.

Elizabeth had a special passion for gardening and LJ. The human rights activist actively maintained her page on the social network and even became “Blogger of the Year” in the ROTOR competition in 2010. True, in her notes, Elizabeth spoke mainly about the work of the foundation. The philanthropist did not like to talk about her personal life.

Despite numerous projects, Glinka managed to raise her sons Konstantin and Alexei, and since 2007, also Ilya. The child’s adoptive mother was Glinka’s patient: when the woman died of cancer, Elizaveta did not have the strength to take the boy back to the orphanage.

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, Elizabeth and Gleb Glinka lived together for 30 happy years.

Elizaveta Glinka in her youth.

An exhibition of expressionists was held at the House of Artists in Moscow, where Elizaveta met her future husband, Gleb Glinka. Young Lisa asked a 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.

Moscow, mid-1980s.

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.

Lawyer Gleb Glinka.

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. What attracted Elizaveta Petrovna was not her physical strength, but her 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.

Elizaveta Glinka in her youth.

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.

With Gleb and Lisa in their Vermont home. From left to right: Olga Okudzhava, Antonina Iskander, Lisa, Gleb, poet Naum Korzhavin, playwright and director Sergei Kokovkin, Fazil Iskander, Bulat Okudzhava. 1992

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.

First parachute jump, July 2009.

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.

Elizaveta and Gleb Glinka with their son.

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.

With husband Gleb and son Alyosha, Vermont, 1991.

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.

Gleb Glinka.

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.

Gleb and Elizaveta with children.

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.

Doctor Lisa.

It was difficult for Gleb Glebovich to give gifts to his wife. In just a couple of weeks, a new thing could be seen 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.

Doctor Lisa.

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...”

Any transport disaster is always grief, fear and horror of the inevitable, it is especially tragic when worthy people, activists of public life, who could have done much more, die. In the last week of 2016, December 25, a plane of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs crashed near Sochi; on board there were: crew, military personnel, musicians of the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as public Russian figure, philanthropist and famous doctor, Glinka Elizaveta Petrovna, who was popularly called simply “Doctor Lisa.”

Biography

She was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow. His father was a military man, and his mother was a nutritionist, wrote books on cooking and the proper use of vitamins, and worked on television. After graduating from school, Lisa Glinka entered the Second Medical Institute named after Pirogov, and five years later she received a diploma in the specialty “pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist.” After completing her studies at the institute, according to some information, she worked in one of the Moscow clinics, but some claim that she did not work in her specialty.

In the biography of Dr. Lisa Glinka great importance has an “American period” of its activities. In 1990, she and her husband Mikhail moved to the USA. Abroad, she continued to practice medicine and went to work at a hospice. At that time, there were no such institutions in Russia, and Glinka was simply shocked by the structure of such a system. After all, in a hospice, a person doomed to death gets a chance to lead a more or less decent life. In her interviews, Elena Petrovna emphasized that in such medical centers people feel happy and continue to believe in recovery.

Education

In addition to her Russian education, Dr. Lisa Glinka in America graduated from Dartmouth Medical Institute with a qualification in palliative medicine. Doctors in this field are trying to find ways to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from incurable forms of cancer and other fatal diseases. The main help for them is psychological. It is especially difficult to teach people to live every second. Palliative medicine does not mean treatment, but rather assistance in preventing and stopping severe pain.

At the end of the 90s, she and her husband went to Ukraine; in Kyiv, Mikhail Glinka had a contract for temporary work. At this time, hospices had already opened in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and Elena Petrovna was in close contact with the doctors of these institutions. But there were no hospices in Kyiv yet, and Dr. Lisa took upon herself the organization of palliative wards at oncology centers. Thanks to her connections in the USA, the American Vale Foundation founded the first hospice in Kyiv. Two years later, Lisa Glinka and her husband returned to the United States, but often returned to Ukraine and helped the hospice.

Fair Aid Foundation

In 2007, Elizaveta Petrovna returned to Moscow to care for her sick mother. From that time on, her life was inextricably linked with promoting the idea of ​​helping terminally ill people in Russia. In the summer of 2007, Lisa Glinka, together with the same enthusiasts, founded the Fair Aid charity foundation, which was financed by the A Just Russia party. The foundation was founded to provide palliative care to sick people, not only with oncology, but with any disease that could lead to them being admitted to a hospice. Low-income people, even homeless people, came here. Here they could get medical care and psychological support.

Doctor Lisa Glinka, along with other doctors, visited Moscow train stations more than once. Here, doctors distributed clothes and food to homeless people, and residents of other cities also received help. Gradually, the Fair Aid Foundation expanded the scope of its activities; all of Russia learned about it after the fires of 2010, when activists of the organization were collecting money for the victims. At the same time, the media began to constantly broadcast the activities of Lisa Glinka, they began to recognize her, help her, and some began to criticize her.

Social activity

The popularity of Dr. Lisa in Russia grew with each humanitarian action, and soon she began to engage in more than just medicine. At the beginning of 2012, together with other activists, among whom were famous actors, singers and politicians, the League of Voters association was organized. The reason for creating this movement was very noble, all its members advocated for fair elections, the goal of the community was to control the electoral process in presidential and parliamentary campaigns.

In the “League of Voters” Lisa, Elizaveta Glinka, did not political issues, but the problems of human freedom of speech and possible consequences falsification of information. For example, in April 2012, activists went to Astrakhan, where a local mayoral candidate went on a hunger strike; he demanded a review of the election results, as he considered them unfair. Doctor Lisa managed to dissuade him from causing harm to his health and went to court for justice.

Policy

They soon became interested in the activities of the League of Voters association senior officials, searches were carried out in the office of the institution, accounts were frozen for some time, but the misunderstanding was resolved and all assets were returned. Lisa Glinka herself tried to maintain neutrality towards various political forces in the country. Although in the fall of 2012 she became a member of the committee of Mikhail Prokhorov’s Civic Platform party, where she also worked on issues of civil rights. Very soon she and Prokhorov left the movement.

In 2012, by decree of President V.V. Putin, Elizaveta Petrovna was appointed a member of the council for the development of civil society, as well as the observance of human rights. Due to the nature of her activities, she has repeatedly attracted famous politicians and artists to charity. Assistants in different time there were Sergei Chuev, Boris Grebenshchikov, Anatoly Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Vitali Klitschko.

Charity

Glinka Lisa, together with the foundation’s activists, often held all kinds of events, for example, “Station on Wednesdays.” During such visits, doctors examined homeless people, provided them with medical care, and gave them food and warm clothing; or “Dinner on Fridays” - free tables were set up for the poor in the fund’s office. Doctors have become especially active charitable organization in 2014 with the outbreak of hostilities in the Donbass. Even after the death of Dr. Lisa, the foundation continues to help wounded and seriously ill children who found themselves in the epicenter of the war.

Since 2006, Lisa Glinka has been the leader of Russian hospice care for seriously ill people. In addition, she was actively involved in the charity organization “Country of the Deaf,” which helps people with hearing problems. Thanks to the work of doctors, hospice departments opened in many Russian cities and countries former USSR. Home work was carried out in the community itself. Elizaveta Petrovna and her associates sought to show all people that a hospice is not a place of death, but a home for life, even a short one.

Humanitarian work in the East of Ukraine

The biography of Lisa Glinka received a new round in 2014, when her foundation took an active part in providing humanitarian aid in the East of Ukraine. As a doctor and philanthropist, she could not help but go to places where blood was shed and there was a shortage of medicine. Moreover, Dr. Lisa was sincerely outraged by the policy of the Red Cross. Representatives world organization refused to bring medicine to the people of Donbass because they did not like Putin’s policies.

Soon, children come to the fore for Lisa Glinka; she helped bring hundreds of children in need of treatment to the capital’s clinics. With her activities in Donbass, she caused a lot of criticism from the Ukrainian authorities, as well as some ill-wishers in our country. She was accused of her own PR, ostentatious assistance, embezzlement of budget funds, and so on.

Tragedy

On December 25, 2016, a Ministry of Defense plane flying from Moscow to Latakia (Syria) crashed into the sea, not far from the Sochi runway. There were 92 people on board the plane: the crew, journalists from several channels, musicians from the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble, as well as Lisa Glinka as the head of the Fair Aid Foundation.

The tragedy immediately caused a strong reaction in Russian society; people were shocked by the death of artists and one of the most active charitable figures in the country and the whole world - Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka. The cause of the plane crash has not been officially announced. There are several versions: from plane overload to pilot error. Many opponents of the Moscow government’s policy and ill-wishers in general immediately pointed out the terrorist attack as possible reason crashes. terrorist revenge for the military presence of Russian troops in Syria.

Be that as it may, on December 25, 2016, worthy and talented people died. Russia has lost in the person of Dr. Lisa Glinka a bright and good doctor. She has flown to Syria more than once, bringing medicine, food, water and clothing to the hot spot. And this time she again carried a large cargo to the residents of Aleppo.

Personal life

According to some reports, Glinka Elizaveta Petrovna, “Doctor Lisa,” as her children called her, did not have Russian citizenship, only American, which is why she was not officially appointed head of the Fair Aid Foundation. But she herself considered her homeland to be the place where someone needed her help. According to the recollections of friends and family, she read a lot and listened to classical music and jazz.

They met their husband Mikhail back in student years, she accompanied him for a long time on all his work trips, including to America and Ukraine. She has three sons, one of whom is adopted. Lisa Glinka's family took her death very hard and, for obvious reasons, refused to comment on this matter.

Many people know Elizaveta Glinka as an active blogger; she maintained her own “Live Journal” page, where her work was described and issues of the “Fair Aid” fund were resolved, for which she even received an award as “Blogger of the Year.”

Public opinion

Lisa Glinka has earned recognition as an altruist and “heavenly messenger” of the suffering. It is difficult to count all the good deeds she has done throughout her life. IN last years she dealt with the problems of children, respecting their rights to receive medical and psychological assistance. She was respected both among doctors and politicians. Glinka raised several dozen activists like herself who wanted to help their neighbors just like that, for free.

In parallel with this opinion, there is the exact opposite: some consider Doctor Lisa to be Putin’s protege, a propagandist for the war in Ukraine, and are also accused of other political and economic sins. All these curses have no basis in evidence; this is an example of propaganda and information warfare that is common today.

Awards

For her charitable and social activities, Elizaveta Glinka, Doctor Lisa, was repeatedly awarded prestigious awards. In 2012 she received the “Order of Friendship” for many years successful work. For her contribution to the promotion of charity in Russia in 2015, she was awarded the “For Beneficence” award. Glinka received one of her last lifetime awards before her fateful flight. Medal "Participant military operation in Syria" in 2016, was presented personally by V.V. Putin.

After her death, posthumously, she was awarded a medal “For purity of thoughts and nobility of deeds” with the wording “For an invaluable contribution to the triumph of Good and peace on Earth.”

Memory

The sudden death of Lisa Glinka came as a surprise to family, friends and associates; many projects were frozen, but most of the projects - a charitable foundation and humanitarian movements, everything created by Dr. Lisa - continue to exist today. Many only after her death realized the scale of her work around the world and decided to continue the implementation of altruistic ideas.

On January 16, 2017, a military children's sanatorium in the city of Yevpatoria was named after Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, as well as the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Grozny and a hospice in Yekaterinburg.