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 share of the fund " Fair help“could not pass 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...”

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 Pirogov Medical Institute, receiving a diploma in the specialty “pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist.” During her studies, she worked in the intensive care unit of one of the Moscow clinics (according to other sources, “Elizaveta Glinka did not work a single day in her specialty”). 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, having graduated from Dartmouth Medical School with a degree in palliative medicine: doctors in this specialty provide symptomatic care to incurable patients, primarily with cancer (some media outlets 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 a fixed place of 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 of the country. 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 and others 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.

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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 Help” fund in 2007; the chairman of this party, Sergei Mironov, also provided active assistance to the work of the fund (in an interview, Glinka explained that the name of the fund was her personal gratitude to Mironov). Boris Grebenshchikov, Yuri Shevchuk, Vyacheslav Butusov, Garik Sukachev, Zemfira, Petr Nalich, Svetlana Surganova and Pelageya took part in the foundation’s charitable events. Glinka’s projects were assisted by Anatoly Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Vitaliy Klitschko.

For her charitable activities, Glinka has repeatedly received various awards. Among them is the Order of Friendship, awarded to her in May 2012 by President Dmitry Medvedev. Glinka became a laureate of the Artem Borovik journalistic prize "Honor. Courage. Mastery" (2008), the Silver Rain radio station award (2010), and the Muz-TV award in the nomination "For Contribution to Life" (2011). In 2012, Glinka was included in the ranking of the hundred most influential women Russia. Several films were made about Glinka’s activities. documentaries, one of which, “Doctor Lisa” by Elena Pogrebizhskaya, was awarded the TEFI Prize in 2009.

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 a dangerous job she was doing, 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.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka(commonly 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, executive director of the International public organization “Fair Aid”. Member of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

Biography

Elizaveta was born in Moscow in the family of a military man and a nutritionist, cook and TV presenter Galina Poskrebysheva. In addition to Lisa and her brother, their family included two cousins ​​who were orphaned at an early age. There was a version that Elizaveta was a relative of Alexander Poskrebyshev, but Glinka denied it.

In 1986 she graduated from the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute with a degree in pediatric resuscitation and anesthesiology. In 1990, she emigrated to the United States with her husband, American lawyer of Russian origin Gleb Glebovich Glinka. In 1991, she received a second medical degree in palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College [unauthorized source?]. Some sources report Glinka's American citizenship. While living in America, I became acquainted with the work of hospices, spending five years with them.

She participated in the work of the First Moscow Hospice, then together with her husband she moved to Ukraine for two years. In 1999, in Kyiv, she founded a hospice at the Kyiv Cancer Hospital. Member of the board of the Vera Hospice Foundation. Founder and President of the American Foundation VALE Hospice International.

Activity

In 2007, she founded the International public organization"Fair Aid", sponsored by the A Just Russia party. The organization provides financial support and medical care to dying cancer patients, low-income non-cancer patients, and the homeless. Every week, volunteers go to Paveletsky Station, distribute food and medicine to the homeless, and also provide them with free legal and medical assistance. According to a 2012 report, on average, the organization sent about 200 people a year to hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region. “Fair Aid” also organizes warming centers for the homeless.

In 2010, Elizaveta Glinka, on her own behalf, collected material assistance for the benefit of victims of forest fires. In 2012, Glinka and her organization organized a collection of things for flood victims in Krymsk. In addition, she participated in raising funds for flood victims; more than 16 million rubles were collected.

In January 2012, together with other public figures, she became the founder of the League of Voters, an organization aimed at monitoring compliance with the electoral rights of citizens. Coming soon to the Fair Aid Foundation tax office conducted an unexpected audit, as a result of which the organization’s accounts were blocked, which, according to Glinka, they were not notified about. On February 1, the accounts were unblocked and the fund continued to operate.

In October 2012, she became a member of the federal committee of Mikhail Prokhorov’s Civic Platform party. In November she was included in the Presidential Council Russian Federation on Civil Society Development and Human Rights).

With the beginning armed conflict in eastern Ukraine provided assistance to people living in the territories of the DPR and LPR. In October 2014, she accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of refusing to provide guarantees for a cargo of medicines under the pretext “we do not like the policies of your president.” The head of the ICRC regional delegation in Russia, Belarus and Moldova, Pascal Cutta, denied these accusations. At the end of October 2014, Elizaveta Glinka gave an interview to the Pravmir portal, where the words were allegedly heard: “As a person who regularly visits Donetsk, I claim that there are no Russian troops there, whether someone likes to hear it or not.” For these words she was criticized by a number of people. Glinka herself refuted this version of the text, after which Pravmir admitted its mistake and published a corrected version of the interview: “As a person who regularly visits Donetsk, I did not see Russian troops there.” Later, in an interview with Snob magazine, Glinka clarified that she was only talking about her personal observations.