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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...

Doctor Lisa: 5 Behaviors of a Real Person

Today we remember the words and actions of the philanthropist, human rights activist, resuscitator and public figure Elizaveta Glinka, who died in a plane crash over the Black Sea.

It seems that Elizaveta Glinka devoted her entire life good deeds. She helped those whom no one wanted to help. Her main patients are hopeless, dying, useless to anyone. No one but her. Every day of Doctor Lisa performed a small miracle. We remember her good deeds to be proud and take an example.

Started practicing palliative medicine

By training, Elizaveta Petrovna is a pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist. Had she remained as such, she would, of course, have been a brilliant doctor. But fate decreed that while confirming her medical diploma in the USA, she accidentally ended up in the palliative care department.

This was many years ago, I had no idea what this place was. Standing in front of the sign, I asked: what is this? My husband replied, “This is the place where they die.”

Elizaveta Petrovna said more than once that she did not like, even hated, death. But then she wanted to go inside. Then Glinka said:
When I saw a tiny hospice in Burlington, in which 24 patients were lying and the medical staff fulfilled their every wish, when it turned out that people on the verge of death could be clean, fed, and not humiliated - it turned my life upside down.

For five years, Elizaveta Petrovna visited the hospice as a volunteer and learned to care for, not treat. And when a specialization in palliative medicine appeared in America, I immediately studied it. And in 1999 she founded the first hospice at an oncology hospital in Kyiv.

My inner drive is love. I love our patients very much. After all, in fact, there is only one difference between me and Maryivanna, who lies in the hospice: she knows when she will die, but I don’t know when I will die. That's all.

Adopted my patient's child

A 13-year-old boy from Saratov, Ilyusha, appeared in the Glinka family in 2008. When Doctor Lisa’s patient, Ilya’s mother, died of cancer, the teenager was about to be sent to Orphanage. Immediately after the funeral, Elizaveta Petrovna went and submitted an application for adoption to the guardianship authorities.

Now Ilya is already an adult 22-year-old guy. Three years ago he gave Elizaveta Petrovna his first granddaughter. On his page on the social network, Ilya posted a photo with his mother and the caption: “I can’t believe it.”

Transported more than a hundred children from the combat zone

Dr. Lisa has been taking children out of the war zone in Ukraine from the very beginning of the conflict - for more than two years in a row. During this time, she saved more than a hundred small patients.

In her column for the Snob publication, journalist Ksenia Sokolova recalls how she accompanied Elizaveta Petrovna during a trip to Donetsk in 2015. From there they were supposed to take 13 children out, but they took out 10. About 50 more kids remained waiting for help. When asked why it is impossible to take everyone at once, Doctor Lisa replied:
...we can only take one bus - the convoy is more likely to be fired upon.

Just recently, last week, Doctor Lisa brought 17 more babies from Donbass for treatment and rehabilitation in Moscow hospitals.

Opened the first children's palliative department in Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk will never forget Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka. After all, it was thanks to Doctor Lisa that in 2013 the first children's palliative department was opened here in a specialized Children's Home. In an interview " Rossiyskaya newspaper"Glinka said:

I will supervise this department. I want children to be provided not only with oxygen concentrators, diapers and the rest, but also with consumables, which are often unavailable. It is no secret that such orphanages and precisely such children are, unfortunately, financed on a residual basis. They will not be adopted, they will never get better.

But you can maintain their life in a decent condition so that they feel comfortable. If he is choking, give him oxygen. The position in which he sits is uncomfortable - find devices to make him comfortable. There are many hospices abroad special devices, right down to the spoons with which they feed. We don't have any of this. You have to start somewhere...

Dr. Lisa wanted to open such departments at every specialized children's home in all regions of Russia.

Brought medicine to the war zone

In the fund " Fair help“confirmed that on her last flight Elizaveta Petrovna was carrying medicines to the Latakia University Hospital: medicines for cancer patients, for newborns, Consumables, which did not arrive there due to the war and sanctions. A month ago, during the presentation of state awards in the Kremlin, Elizaveta Petrovna made a speech in which she said:

It is very difficult for me to see the killed and wounded children of Donbass. Sick and killed children of Syria. It is difficult to change the usual image of a city dweller to life for 900 days during a war in which innocent people are now dying.

Alas, Doctor Lisa knew what she was talking about. The words with which she concluded her speech were also prophetic:
We are never sure that we will come back alive, because war is hell on earth, and I know what I'm talking about. But we are confident that kindness, compassion and mercy work stronger than any weapon.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (widely known as Doctor Lisa; February 20, 1962, Moscow - December 25, 2016, the Black Sea near Sochi, Russia) - Russian public figure and human rights activist. Philanthropist, resuscitator by training, specialist in the field of palliative medicine (USA), executive director of the International public organization “Fair Aid”. Member of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.
By decision of the Russian Minister of Defense, the name of Elizaveta Glinka will be assigned to one of the medical institutions of the Ministry of Defense. The Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Grozny and a hospice in Yekaterinburg will be named after her.

Lisa was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow. Her father was a military man, and her mother was a TV presenter. In 1986, she graduated from medical school and received the specialty “resuscitator-anesthesiologist.” In 1990, she emigrated with her husband to the United States of America. I got the second one there too medical education. While living in America, Lisa became acquainted with the work of hospices. Then in Kyiv she opened the first hospice, and also took part in the creation of a fund to help hospices in Russia.

Doctor Lisa returned to Moscow in 2007 due to her mother’s serious illness. After the death of a loved one, Glinka created the Fair Aid Foundation. This organization provided medical care and financial support to dying cancer patients, homeless people, and low-income non-cancer patients.

In 2010, Lisa collected material aid for victims of forest fires, and two years later a collection of items and food was organized for the benefit of flood victims in Krymsk.

With the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine, Doctor Lisa began to provide assistance to those living in the Donbass. She received support for humanitarian actions Russian authorities. Glinka’s personal project to transport wounded children and sick people from the war zone became a state project.

Since 2015, Lisa has visited Syria several times on humanitarian missions. She was involved in organizing the provision of medical care to Syrian citizens, delivery, and distribution of medical supplies.

Under Lisa, her charitable foundation received numerous monetary donations, including from major Russian officials.

Doctor Lisa died on December 25, 2016 in a plane crash near Sochi. She accompanied a shipment of medicines to Syria. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Personal life

Doctor Lisa's husband is Gleb Glinka, an American lawyer of Russian origin. The family has three sons: Konstantin and Alexey live in the USA, and Ilya, Foster-son, lives in Saratov.

Dr. Lisa had a special passion for blogging and gardening. She actively maintained her page on in social networks: I wrote about my foundation, shared photos and videos. She also loved stylish handbags and telling jokes. Moreover, she did not hide the fact that she is a rather conflicted person. Lisa could smash both an inactive official and an arrogant ward to smithereens.

In December 2016, Glinka received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for her contribution to human rights activities. Then she admitted in her speech that she was never sure that she would return home from another trip to the combat zone.

In About the pseudo “Doctor Lisa”, who is not even a doctor at all.

Once upon a time, Ira Zorkina tried to find where Liza Glinka studied:
“In Vermont College, which is also listed in one of the biographies of the Reverend Doctorlisa, nothing was heard of her.
I don’t know if Doctorliza read the article in Moscow News, written in 2008 in very bad English language, in which her place of study is already designated as the Dortmund Medical School in Vermont. Maybe I didn’t read it, or maybe I had nothing against such a transcription. What difference does it make which of the non-existent Medical Schools she did not study at, right? In order to play doctor and be photographed in a white coat with a stethoscope around your neck, it’s enough to write a blog under the name “Doctor Lisa,” even if you haven’t actually worked a day in your specialty.
Yes, by the way, what specialty, exactly?
The choice is wide.
Here you have a resuscitator, here you have a pediatric anesthesiologist. This is from Second Honey. There is also an oncologist and a specialist in palliative medicine to choose from. I hope that Doctorliza still knows the difference between these specializations. Or maybe she has already forgotten what she was taught in Moscow in the eighties? She could well have forgotten if in her next interview she doesn’t remember what she said about herself in the previous one. And not only about myself. Regarding the money donated to the fund for the construction of a hospice in Yekaterinburg and missing from Masterbank, Doctorliza also had several mutually exclusive explanations.

But it doesn't matter, right?
It is important that people believe. They believe Doctor Lisa.
They believe unconditionally, as true believers should.
I honestly don’t know Who is Doctor Lisa and what she thinks about herself.
She's already had enough of playing doctor and now she's taking it up a notch - playing saint? Does he play completely sincerely? Is she a “mirror” and sees herself the way those around her see her? Is she being used? Is she an adrenaline junkie, dependent on adrenaline, and cannot live without adventures, dangers and deaths? You can fantasize as much as you like."

What is "palliative medicine"? Let's open Wikipedia: "the principle of palliative care: creating protection from the painful manifestations of the disease, but not treating the disease itself."
When someone sneezed and you said “bless you!” - you are a doctor of palliative medicine.
I'm not even joking right now.

I also want to ask anyone - has anyone seen the Second Medal diploma of Elizaveta Poskrebysheva?
Well, at least one photo lying around? Well, at least someone who would say, “Yes, I studied with her.”
Well, at least a student photo?
No?

She generally had bad memory.
Being the granddaughter of Poskrebyshev, and becoming Glinka only after getting married, in one interview she managed to call herself a descendant of the composer Glinka.

Extreme medicine - read, caring for the dying - is what Doctorliza has been interested in since her early youth and to which she has dedicated her entire life. Religion is always right there when people are sick, doomed, suffering, dying. There is no need to repeat “opium of the people,” we must remember that all cults known today exist through donations from the suffering and inheritance of the property of the dead.

There is another story with the Yekaterinburg hospice, how the grandmother first wanted to sign up her apartment for the hospice, and then changed her mind, and someone Oleg Kinyov killed the grandmother. Believe it or not, this Oleg Kinyov was supposed to become the director of this hospice. And Doctorliza was the beneficiary of this murder. But the matter was turned in a completely different direction, they even brought in Roizman, Evgeniy Vadimovich to this matter, although he has nothing to do with it at all. And again the inheritance of the property of the dying.
How strange, right?

Also a story about Donetsk children whom Doctorliza took out of the state of Ukraine without the permission of the Ukrainian authorities, without the permission of their guardians. And people can't find these children. It was as if they didn’t exist at all.

Well, my favorite thing is finance.
"No charitable foundation she does not have. There is an international public organization"Fair Aid", report for 2013. Total revenues 8803 thousand rubles. Expenses for maintaining the fund are 5940 thousand. That is, 67% of revenues are spent on own maintenance.
If this organization were re-registered as a charity, then, according to Article 17, paragraph 3 of the Federal Law "On Charitable Activities and charitable organizations", these expenses could not exceed 20%.
The fund supports itself, and the largest item of charity expenditure (829 thousand) is vague: “targeted monetary assistance and payment for the services of organizations to provide assistance.” messages about current work: in March 2013 we fed the homeless, in July 2014 we took care of the South-East of Ukraine. there is nothing between these messages for more than a year. She does not have a medical practice herself. whether there was one at all is unknown."(

30 years of family happiness, three children and hundreds of lives saved

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, 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 probably could have banned 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.