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Elizaveta Glinka is a Muscovite, the daughter of the military Pyotr Sidorov and the ambulance doctor Galina Poskrebysheva. “Dad made me a seal on which he wrote “Doctor Liza”, and I wrote prescriptions for my dolls,” recalled Elizabeth herself, who wore white bathrobe medic.

After graduating from the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute. N.I. Pirogov, she left for the United States, where she married an American lawyer of Russian origin Gleb Glinka. Her husband belongs to a noble family - a descendant of the cousin of the composer Mikhail Glinka. “My husband understands that it is impossible to stop me, I will go [to help] one way or another. Probably the explanation is that he loves me.”

In America, Glinka first saw painted in different colors department called hospice: "For the first time I saw that a person can die with dignity." For five years she devoted herself to working in American hospices, and in 1991 received an American diploma from Dartmouth Medical School (Dartmouth Medical School) in the specialty " palliative care". It was then that she had a dream to open something similar in her homeland.

Although Elizaveta Glinka is Russian by nationality, many considered her to be Ukrainian. For the first time, she opened hospice wards in the oncological center of Kyiv, when she and her husband ended up in Ukraine on the business of his two-year business trip. In 2001, the first free hospice was opened in Kyiv. After the trip expired, the family returned to the United States, but Dr. Liza continued to oversee the Kyiv hospice.

Glinka took part in the opening of the First Moscow Hospice, established in 1994 by physician Vera Millionshchikova. Last message Glinka on Facebook was published on December 21, 2016 on the sixth anniversary of Millionshchikova's death: “I wait and believe that the war will end, that we will all stop doing and writing vain, evil words to each other. And that there will be many hospices. And there will be no injured and hungry children. See you soon, Vera.

Elizabeth moved back to Russia in 2007, when her mother fell seriously ill. In the same year, the Fair Help charity foundation was founded in Moscow, where Glinka became the executive director. “I organized the fund while my mother was still in the hospital. I probably did it so I wouldn't go crazy." Initially, it was planned that the foundation would be engaged in palliative care, but then Dr. Liza began to help low-income people, including the sick, without a fixed place of residence. With the Fair Aid ambulance, she went to those who were not visited by the 03 call, distributed food, clothes and medicines to the homeless. There are many charitable events in the fund: "Station on Wednesdays" (helping the homeless at Moscow railway stations), "Lend a Helping Hand" (care for the dying and seriously ill), "Dinner on Fridays" (for the homeless and the poor in the fund's office).

In August 2010, Fair Aid worked with victims of forest fires, in 2012 he participated in a charity event for flood victims in Krymsk. During the campaign, more than 16 million rubles were raised.

Since 2014, "Fair Help" has been organizing the treatment of seriously ill and wounded children who suffered in the war zone in the south-east of Ukraine.

Since 2015, Glinka has visited Syria several times: she delivered medicines and provided medical assistance to the civilian population. On the crashed Tu-154, Dr. Liza was carrying about a ton of medicines for cancer patients and newborns, as well as expendable materials for medical technology who did not go there because of the sanctions and the war. « Each saved life snatched from the hell of war is a turning point in the course of things, the prevention of an already almost accomplished evil. There is a measure, a price that I have to pay: I need not only to go and take the children out “from there”, from under shells and bullets, but also “here” to go through stoning, public humiliation. And if for all these “scum” and “bitch” addressed to me, God will give me the opportunity to save at least one more life, I agree.” (In an interview with Snob, November 2014).

Glinka was a member of the board of the Vera Hospice Assistance Fund, supervised the work of hospices in Kyiv and Omsk. Astrakhan, as well as in Armenia and Serbia.

In November 2012, Glinka was included in the Development Council under the President of the Russian Federation civil society and human rights

Glinka entered the top 100 most powerful women Russia, compiled by the Ogonyok magazine, the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the RIA Novosti agency. Three films have been made about her life and work. documentaries, one of which - "Doctor Liza" by Elena Pogrebizhskaya - was awarded the TEFI Prize in 2009.

In early December 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Glinka the State Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of charitable and human rights activities. “The most important thing is the right to life. In this difficult time, it is ruthlessly trampled on. It is very difficult for me to see the killed and wounded children of Donbass, the sick and killed children of Syria,” she said at the award ceremony.

Three sons grew up in the Glinka family, the youngest, Ilya, was adopted. His mother was a patient of Glinka and died when the boy was 12. Elizabeth was always proud of Ilya and the fact that he gave her her first granddaughter.

On the morning of December 25, 2016, 7 minutes after takeoff, a Tu-154 of the Russian Defense Ministry crashed from Adler Airport. The plane was heading to the Syrian city of Latakia, where hostilities are taking place, including with the participation of the Russian Armed Forces. There were 92 people on board: the main composition of the Song and Dance Ensemble Russian army them. A.V. Aleksandrova, journalists from Channel One, NTV, the Zvezda TV channel, military personnel and Elizaveta Glinka. She was carrying medical supplies to the university hospital in Latakia.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka is a doctor, a specialist in the field of palliative medicine, the creator and head of the first free Ukrainian hospice, opened on September 5, 2001 in Kyiv. About 15 patients stay there permanently, in addition, the program "Care for the sick at home" covers more than 100 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 pass through his heart hundreds of people, bury them - and not become hardened, not covered with a bark of indifference, not infected with the professional cynicism of doctors? But for five years now, she has had a huge deal on her shoulders - a free hospice (“you can’t take 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 bill goes to the clock. Here good conditions, tasty food quality medicines. “Everyone who visited us says: how good it is with you! 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 the hospice. It would seem - a few lines of simple text, but for some reason the whole outlook has changed, everything has become different ...

Now Elizaveta Petrovna herself needs help very much. For several months, Dr. Liza has been living in Moscow: her mother, Galina Ivanovna, is seriously ill in the hospital here, for several months she has been in the neuro-reanimation department of Burdenko. She is in a 4th degree coma. At the slightest movement (turning over on her back, for example), her pressure rises to critical, which, with her diagnosis, can mean highest risk of death.

But Dr. Lisa did not manage to stop being a doctor for these few months: she also helps many other people in the hospital: with recommendations on how to find funds for treatment, and most importantly, with advice and information about what kind of 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 was fully paid. However, in its current state, transportation is impossible, it will mean a fatal outcome.

Here is an excerpt from a letter from Elizaveta Petrovna to the director of the hospital: reoperation. Care is provided by highly qualified nurses on a paid basis, the sisters perfectly fulfill everything related to the fulfillment of appointments.

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

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

Dear readers, we ask for your intense prayers for a successful resolution of this situation!

Transcription of the program “Guest"Thomas "", sounded recently on the air of 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 care physician. Hello Elizabeth!

- 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 my close friend told me to get myself a live journal. And since it was a little difficult for me to open it, there was little time, in fact, I received this magazine as a gift. And “Doctor Liza” is the so-called nickname that my friend gave me. And since then I have had this magazine for a year and a half - and now everyone calls me “Doctor Liza”.

- And 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 what I wanted, but always knew that I would be a doctor.

“Nevertheless, there are different directions in medicine. And what you are doing is perhaps one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, because working in a hospice, working with patients who may not have a chance for a future life - this is probably one of the most difficult jobs. ?

- You know, it is always very difficult for me to answer such a question, because when you work at your place, your work does not seem to you the most difficult. I love my job very much, and, for example, it seems to me that the most difficult work is as a cardiac surgeon or a psychiatrist. Or, if you do not touch medicine - from sellers who deal with big amount 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 resuscitation and autophysiology, and then life turned out so that I had to move from Russia to another country, where my husband brought me to get acquainted with the hospice – and I looked at how it looks abroad. And, in fact, what I saw completely changed my life. And I set it as my goal that in my country there should be the same departments in which people can die for free and with dignity, I really wanted hospices to become accessible to all segments of the population. The hospital I made is located in Kyiv, Ukraine - and in Moscow I I cooperate with the First Moscow Hospice, which was built fourteen years ago - and for fourteen years now we have been close friends with its founder, head physician Vera Millionshchikova, who is 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. That is, I knew that the beginnings of the hospice movement in Russia already exist, 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 staff of the First Moscow Hospice, there was an outreach service and only a hospital was being organized.

And four years later, my life turned out so that I had 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. Here I discovered that, probably, my volunteer activities and the assistance 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 put. That is, these patients were discharged to die at home, 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 positions.

– By virtue of the profession and by virtue of the characteristics of those people who are your patients, your patients and just 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 the outlook on life. There are many such examples - from life, from literature, from cinema, etc. How does a person feel who faces such problems every day?

- Hard question. Well, you see, on the one hand, this is my job, which I want to do well. And I feel, probably, the same thing that any person feels, because, of course, I feel very sorry for the sick who are dying, I feel even more sorry for the sick who are dying in poverty. It is very painful to look at those patients who have a so-called pain syndrome - that is, those symptoms that, unfortunately, sometimes accompany the process of dying from an oncological disease. But on the other hand, I must not forget that I am a professional, that this is my job, and I try, when leaving the hospice, not to endure these experiences, not to bring them, for example, to my family and not to bring this is in the company of people with whom I communicate, you understand?

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 - 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 the 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 - and you and I simply do not we know when and at what moment it will happen. And that's the only difference, you know?

Well, the question of the fact that this often happens before our eyes is already the specifics of the profession, I probably just got used to it. But this does not mean that my staff - for example, in a hospice - do not cry and do not worry. 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 nature. But I see that, of course, the staff both worries and cries - but with experience some kind of such develops ... not that they become colder, but we just understand ... Someone understands that he knows something about life another, someone just understands that you just need to pull yourself together in order to help the next patient. That's how we manage.

“Are there many who believe that there is something else beyond 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 There will be nothing. Two will have strong doubts, and one will be sure that there there is nothing, and this earthly life will end - and there already everything there- empty.

- Do you somehow try to talk to people about these topics?
- Only if the patient himself wants it. Since the hospice is still a secular institution, I must, must respect the interests of the patient. And if it Orthodox Christian, and he wants to talk about it - I will bring him a priest, if a Catholic - accordingly, he will receive a priest, if a Jew - then we will bring him a rabbi. I'm not a priest, you understand, therefore - 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 - such is their point of view. In Ukraine, there is now a streak of sick people who have joined the Jehovah's Witnesses sect. And they are really being robbed: quite 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 it for us? I say: “Who is this “brother”? Which?" "In Christ!" That is, Tanya was a lonely woman who had been in exile in Magadan for twenty years. And when she returned to Kyiv, they saw this unfortunate, sick, lonely woman and "joined" her in a sect... Do you know that such patients are weak, very subject to some kind of influence...

And our second conversation was that they made a will, according to which Tanya gave them all the property. And since it was the desire of this patient ... Inside, I understand that this is not very nice in relation to this woman, unfair, but her desire ... She was very waiting - 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 and our God Jehovah! ..”. Here. And I couldn’t tell her that “you have the wrong religion,” because she didn’t have anyone at all. And here's what she was hooked on two weeks before her death - I have no right to tear off this last attachment in her 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 is the fate of man. There is an opinion that a writer is not one who can write, but one who cannot but write. Why are you writing?

- I absolutely do not agree with being called a writer, because the writer, probably, is the one who received special education or more well-read than I am. Really, I don't want to draw. In general, the first story ... well, not even a story - this is 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 bought, something else - that is, purely hospice friends who knew a little about 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 our Orthodox way of life that I started my short observation - and shared short story this family. And the next day, when I opened the mail, I was generally 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 their own ... 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 somehow hurt me.

- 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 received, probably, about forty-three responses from patients who asked for help. That is, it has now become such a platform - for example, now we are literally consulting a woman from Krasnodar Territory... From Ukhta, from the regions of Russia, from Odessa - where hospices are not available - but they read that there is a place where these patients can be somehow helped - and so they write ...

I was shocked by the absence, the vacuum of information that concerns the process of dying patients - about the fact that symptoms can be alleviated, that there are drugs that alleviate them one way or another ... What surprised me from the responses was that many were sure that the services of such a hospice - at the level of services that are given in 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 paroled person. And the selection criteria for admission to the hospice in both Russia and Ukraine - in addition to those that the City Health Service requires of me - are fatal diseases with a life expectancy of six months or less.

- Tell me, please, do you learn something from your patients?

- Yes. In fact, this is a school of life. I learn from them not every day, but every minute. Almost every patient can learn patience. They are all different, but there are those who endure so patiently and so worthily what happened to them in life, that sometimes I am very surprised. I'm learning wisdom... It seems to me that Shakespeare wrote - I can't vouch for the literalness of the quote, but approximately the following words: "the dying shake with their harmony, because they have the wisdom of life." And this is true, literally… You know, they still have little strength to speak, so they apparently think over some phrases and sometimes say things that, for how many years I have been working, I am so deeply shocked that, yes, I really I study from them.

And through some patients, I sometimes learn what not to do, because as you live, so you die, and indeed, not all patients are angels. For some reason, many people, reading my livejournal, say: “Where do you get such amazing people?” Do you understand? No, they are not amazing - that is, I'm talking about the fact that there are capricious requests - well, and cold, prudent people. And when I looked at how their departure from life happens, and how the family is destroyed - or vice versa, how the family reacts, for myself, I probably conclude that I, probably, God will give, will never do in my life. Therefore, we learn and good things, we learn from mistakes, because it all happens before our eyes.

I have an amazing priest who is dying right now - the first Orthodox priest who dies in my ward, today he turned sixty years old, he received a call ... chat. And from him, I probably learned more than from all my patients ... And journalists recently went to the hospital to me, they calculated that 2356 patients passed through my hands - and from one I received what I had not received from fourteen years of work. the rest ... So I asked - father - what is humility? And he has been priest for thirty-three years - can you imagine? And hereditary - his father was a priest, and his son is now a priest. He is 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 do not notice these little things. That is, it could not be some kind of dialogue, but he simply says such things that you think about: how did I not understand this, and how did I not know this? Here is our father...

- A low bow to you for what you are doing and thank you very much for taking the time to have this conversation!
- Save God...

Elizaveta Glinka adopted Ilya Shvets after his mother died of cancer in 2008. A resident of Saratov suffered from cancer and was a patient of the Doctor Lisa Foundation.

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Ilya's relatives were not even willing to pay for his mother's funeral. Then everything fell on the fragile shoulders of Glinka. When the boy flatly refused to go to the shelter, she decided to take him to her family. “In general, we went to custody, wrote a statement, so I got it. Irony of fate: Ilyusha is a half-breed, his father was black. I thought what to say to the children: I left for Russia, and also brought the child. “Normal, but what?” And the younger one is more emotional: “What are you doing! Do I really have a black brother now? How is it in Harlem? What a cool thing, great!" - Dr. Lisa said in an interview.

After it turned out that Ilya was adopted twice. In 1994, he was found right on the street, in a box, not far from the hostel in Ulyanovsk. In the baby house, he was noticed by 35-year-old Galina, who herself once grew up in a shelter, and decided to adopt. Nevertheless, happiness did not last long: soon the family was forced to move to Saratov and was left without a roof over their heads.

After long wanderings around the rooming houses and knocking on the thresholds of local officials, Galina and her Foster-son received an apartment, Komsomolskaya Pravda in Saratov reports. True, it turned out that one-room housing is in a terrible state, therefore locals started raising money for repairs for the family.

But after Ilya, a new misfortune lay in wait - his adoptive mother was diagnosed with cancer in an advanced stage. As a result, the woman died within two years: neither surgery nor chemotherapy courses helped.

At first, Ilya lived with his foster family in Moscow, but then moved back to Saratov and went to college to be a cook. At first, the young man wanted to quit his studies and return to the capital, but Dr. Lisa dissuaded him. "And then he settled down. Like," aunt "in the capital told him:" Do not even think: you will move, how will you get a diploma. "We could not even think that this aunt is Elizaveta Glinka ..." - they said at the college where she studies young man.

Any transport accident is always grief, fear and horror of the inevitable, it is especially tragic when worthy people, activists die. public life who could do more. IN last week On December 25, 2016, a plane of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia crashed near Sochi, on board were: the crew, the military, musicians of the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as a public Russian leader, 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 dietitian, wrote books on cooking and the proper use of vitamins, and worked on television. After graduating from school, Liza Glinka entered the Pirogov Second Medical Institute, five years later she received a diploma in the specialty "children's resuscitator-anaesthetist". After completing her studies at the institute, according to some reports, she worked in one of the Moscow clinics, but some argue that she did not work in her specialty.

In the biography of Dr. Liza Glinka great importance has an "American period" of its activities. In 1990, she and her husband Mikhail moved to the United States. Abroad, she continued to practice medicine, went to work in a hospice. At that time, there were no such institutions in Russia, and Glinka was simply shocked by the structure of such a system. Indeed, in a hospice, a person doomed to death gets a chance to lead more or less decent life. In her interviews, Elena Petrovna emphasized that in such medical centers people feel happy and do not stop believing in recovery.

Education

Apart from Russian education, Dr. Lisa Glinka in America graduated from Dartmouth Medical Institute with a degree in palliative medicine. Doctors in this field are trying to find ways to improve the quality of life of patients with incurable forms of cancer and other deadly 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 help to prevent and stop severe pain.

In the late 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 closely communicated with the doctors of these institutions. But there were no hospices in Kyiv yet, and Dr. Liza took upon herself the organization of palliative wards at oncology centers. Thanks to her connections in the US, the American Vale Foundation founded the first hospice in Kyiv. Two years later, Liza Glinka and her husband returned to the United States, but often returned to Ukraine and helped the hospice.

Foundation "Fair Aid"

In 2007, Elizaveta Petrovna returned to Moscow to take care of her sick mother. Since that time, her life has been inextricably linked with the promotion of the idea of ​​helping the terminally ill in Russia. In the summer of 2007, Lisa Glinka, together with the same enthusiasts, founded the Just Help charity fund, which was financed by the Just Russia party. The Foundation was founded to provide palliative care to sick people, not only oncology, but any diseases that could lead to hospice. Low-income people, even the homeless, came here. Here they could receive medical care and psychological support.

Doctor Lisa Glinka, along with other doctors, visited Moscow railway stations more than once. Here, doctors distributed clothes and food to homeless people, 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, and some criticize her.

Social work

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 association "League of Voters" was organized. The reason for the creation of this movement was very noble, all its members advocated fair elections, the goal of the community was to control the electoral process in presidential and parliamentary campaigns.

In the "League of Voters" Liza, Elizaveta Glinka, dealt not with political issues, but with the problems of freedom of speech of a person 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 revision of the election results, as he considered them unfair. Dr. Lisa managed to dissuade him from causing harm to health and go to court for justice.

Politics

The activities of the association "League of Voters" soon became interested in the highest ranks, 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 the party of Mikhail Prokhorov "Civil Platform", where she also dealt with issues of observance of civil rights. Very soon she and Prokhorov withdrew from 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. By the nature of her activities, she has repeatedly attracted famous politicians and artists to charity. assistants in different time were Sergei Chuev, Boris Grebenshchikov, Anatoly Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Vitali Klitschko.

Charity

Glinka Liza, together with the activists of the fund, often held all kinds of actions, for example, “Station on Wednesdays”. During such trips, doctors examined homeless people, provided them with medical care, gave them food and warm clothes; or "Friday Dinner" - free tables for the poor were arranged in the foundation's office. Physicians were especially active charitable organization in 2014 with the outbreak of hostilities in the Donbass. Even after the death of Dr. Liza, the foundation continues to help wounded and seriously ill children who find themselves in the epicenter of the war.

Since 2006, Liza Glinka has been the leader of the Russian seriously ill people in hospice. In addition, she actively participated in the charitable organization "Country of the Deaf", which helps people with hearing problems. Thanks to the work of doctors, hospice departments have opened in many cities of Russia and countries former USSR. Home work was carried out in the society itself. Elizaveta Petrovna and her associates sought to show all people that the hospice is not a place of death, but a home for life, even if it is short.

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 medicines were in short supply. Moreover, Dr. Lisa was sincerely outraged by the policy of the Red Cross. Representatives world organization refused to bring medicines to the people of Donbass, because they did not like Putin's policy.

Soon the children for Liza Glinka come to the fore, she helped take out hundreds of children who need treatment in the capital's clinics. With her activities in the Donbass, she caused an abundance of criticism from the Ukrainian authorities, as well as some ill-wishers in our country. She was accused of her own PR, ostentatious assistance, waste of budgetary funds, and so on.

Tragedy

On December 25, 2016, an aircraft of the Ministry of Defense, flying from Moscow to Latakia (Syria), crashed into the sea, not far from the runway in Sochi. There were 92 people on board the plane: the crew, journalists from several channels, musicians from the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble, and Liza Glinka as head of the Fair Help 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 around the world - Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka. Officially, the causes of the crash have not been named. There are several versions: from aircraft overload to pilot error. Many opponents of the policy of the Moscow government and generally ill-wishers immediately pointed to the terrorist attack as possible cause crash. terrorist revenge for the military presence of Russian troops in Syria.

Be that as it may, on December 25, 2016, worthy and talented people. Russia has lost in the face of Dr. Liza Glinka a bright and good doctor. She has already flown to Syria more than once, brought to hot spot medicines, food, water and clothes. And this time she again carried a large load to the residents of Aleppo.

Personal life

According to some reports, Glinka Elizaveta Petrovna, "Doctor Liza," as the children called her, had no Russian citizenship, only American, which is why she was not officially appointed head of the Fair Aid Foundation. But she herself considered her homeland the place where someone needed her help. According to the recollections of friends and relatives, she read a lot, listened to classical music and jazz.

She met her husband Michael in student years, she accompanied him for a long time on all business trips, including in America and Ukraine. She has three sons, one of whom is adopted. The family of Lisa Glinka was very upset by her death and, for obvious reasons, refused to comment on this matter.

Many people know Elizaveta Glinka as an active blogger, she ran her own LiveJournal page, where her work was described, issues of the Fair Help Foundation 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 afflicted. 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, the observance of their rights to receive medical and psychological help. She was respected among doctors and politicians. Glinka brought up several dozen activists like herself, who wanted to help their neighbors just like that, for free.

Parallel to this opinion, there is also the exact opposite: some consider Dr. Lisa to be Putin’s henchman, propagandist for the war in Ukraine, and also accused of other political and economic sins. All these curses have no evidence, this is an example of propaganda, information warfare that is customary today.

Awards

For your charity and social activities Elizaveta Glinka, Dr. Liza, has been awarded prestigious awards more than once. In 2012, she received the "Order of Friendship" for many years of successful work. For her contribution to the promotion of charity in Russia in 2015, she was awarded the distinction “For Good Deed”. One of the last lifetime awards Glinka received before the fatal flight. Medal "Participant military operation in Syria" in 2016 was presented personally by V. V. Putin.

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

Memory

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

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

Biography and episodes of life Doctor Lisa. When born and died Elizabeth Glinka, memorable places and dates important events her life. doctor quotes, Photo and video.

Years of life of Elizabeth Glinka:

born February 20, 1962, died December 25, 2016

Epitaph

"Give me, hope, a hand,
let's go beyond the invisible ridge,
where the stars shine
in my soul, as in the sky.
…
Bury me in me
From the heat of the worldly desert
And make a path to the depths
Where the bowels are like the sky, blue.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Biography of Doctor Lisa (Glinka)

Elizaveta Glinka, known to many Russians as Doctor Liza, is a doctor, public figure, human rights activist and philanthropist, whom a huge number of people perceived as nothing more than an angel of mercy. Indeed, the entire biography of Dr. Lisa is life saving story or at least attempts to make them more portable. But there were those who more than sharply criticized Dr. Lisa and her methods.

Immediately after receiving her first medical education, Elizabeth Glinka, following her husband, moved to live in the United States. There she mastered the second specialization, which gave rise to her charitable activities: Palliative Medicine. That is, caring for those whose condition can no longer be really improved. She worked in hospices in Moscow and Kyiv, and then organized her own charitable foundation to help the terminally ill.

Gradually, the scope of Glinka's activities expanded: Dr. Lisa Foundation arranged distribution free meals and heating points for the homeless, provided medical assistance to the poor, and held fundraising campaigns for victims of natural disasters.

Dr. Lisa transports children from Donetsk in 2014

Stormy criticism of Elizabeth Glinka sounded during the outbreak in Ukraine in 2014. armed conflict. Dr. Lisa clearly articulated her position: to help those who need it - regardless of any political reasons and circumstances. Through her efforts, humanitarian and medical supplies were arranged for both sides, and dozens of seriously ill children were taken out of the dangerous territory.

Glinka was reproached for being illegible, for helping "the wrong people" and herself accepts help from dubious sources. To this, Dr. Lisa could only answer one thing: I will do good to the best of my ability and by all accessible ways. Moreover, Elizabeth was sure that by helping to correct evil, in a sense, she was violating the given world order, the natural course of things, and therefore she had to pay for it. AND she was ready to pay: to hear accusations and curses against her - but continue the work that she lived for. After the conflict in Ukraine, the war broke out in Syria, and Dr. Lisa flew there on numerous humanitarian missions.

Elizabeth Glinka died tragically - as well as 91 other people who were on board the victim Tu-154 plane crash bound for Syria. Dr. Lisa was carrying a batch of medicines there.

Dr. Liza at the ceremony of presenting her with the State Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of human rights work on December 8, 2016.

life line

February 20, 1962 Date of birth of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (Doctor Liza).
1986 Graduated from the Moscow Medical Institute. N. I. Pirogova, specializing in pediatric resuscitation anesthesiologist. Emigration to the USA.
1991 Obtaining a second higher medical education in the specialty "palliative medicine" in the USA.
1999 Establishment of the first hospice at the Oncological Hospital in Kyiv.
2007 Foundation in Moscow charitable foundation"Just Help".
2007 Elizaveta Glinka is a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.
2012 Rewarding Elizabeth Glinka with the Order of Friendship.
2016 Awarding the State Prize to Elizaveta Glinka Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in human rights work.
December 25, 2016 Date of death of Elizabeth Glinka.

Memorable places

1. 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute. N. I. Pirogov, who graduated from Elizaveta Glinka.
2. Dartmouth College (USA), where Elizaveta Glinka received her second higher medical education at the medical school.
3. The first Moscow hospice, in which Elizaveta Glinka participated.
4. Kyiv, where Elizaveta Glinka lived and worked for several years.
5. Syria, which Elizabeth Glinka repeatedly visited with humanitarian missions.
6. Sochi, near which there was a plane crash that claimed the life of Elizabeth Glinka.

Elizaveta Glinka in an interview with Snob magazine in 2014

Episodes of life

During the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine, Elizaveta Glinka, in an ambulance, personally took out injured children from Donetsk during active hostilities.

In 2014, Elizaveta Glinka took first place in the rating of "100 most promising politicians after the autumn regional elections" (ISEPI version). In the same year, Glinka took 26th place in the rating of "100 Most Influential Women in Russia" by Ogonyok magazine.

The film "Doctor Liza" (directed by Elena Pogrebizhskaya), which received the TEFI-2009 award as the best documentary film

Testaments

"Help specific people in distress, regardless of their beliefs, political affiliation, regardless of whether they are criminals or not, regardless of anything, simply because they are PEOPLE - this is the task of a charitable organization.

"I don't do any political career. I am out of politics, I am not a member of any party ... My foundation is ready to accept help from anyone who can and wants to provide it. If my critics want to give it to me, I will be glad. But so far, instead of these morally impeccable people, I am being helped by imperfect ones ... And I am sincerely grateful to them.

“... I was taught that charity should be, first of all, effective. Therefore, if I set the task of saving children, I use all the means and possibilities, create an algorithm and solve it. And if you have to risk your life to save children, I am ready for it.”

“We are never sure that we will return alive, because war is hell on earth, and I know what I am talking about. But we are sure that kindness, compassion and mercy work stronger than any weapon.”

condolences

“It is terrible and hard that such energetic and bright people are taken from us. After that, there remains such a big gap ... And such a number of abandoned, destitute, whom she gave care, participation and hope.
Ekaterina Chistyakova, Director of the Podari Zhizn Charitable Foundation

“I do not know how to convey to the families of the victims the full depth of my compassion. There are no words, except for those that have already set the teeth on edge for a long time. And no words can take away such grief. It is sometimes said that there are no irreplaceable people. It is not true. Every person is irreplaceable. And such as Elizabeth Glinka, even more so. Without it, Russia has become poorer.”
Vladimir Pozner, journalist and TV presenter

“She was ready to pay with her life for what she thought was right. And she paid. All disputes are in the past. Everlasting memory!"
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, politician