Personal life of Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka: sharp turns and secret passions. Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka

The famous Doctor Lisa (Elizaveta Glinka) died in the plane crash of the Tu-154 airliner near Sochi.

was in famous Elizabeth Glinka, known to many as Doctor Lisa.

Until recently, her work colleagues refused to believe that Elizabeth was on board and was flying on that ill-fated flight to Syria. However, the sad news is that Dr. Lisa is no more.

She was the head of the Fair Help charity foundation, a palliative medicine doctor, a philanthropist, a well-known public figure, and a board member of the Vera hospice fund.

Sick children simply called her: “Doctor Lisa.” This brave woman endured many from whistling bullets in the Donbass. She helped many in Syria. She solved the problems of sick people, placing them in the best clinics in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She did not know how and could not refuse, she helped everyone for free...

Doctor Lisa (Elizaveta Glinka)

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow in the family of a military man and a nutritionist, cook and famous TV presenter Galina Ivanovna Poskrebysheva.

In addition to Lisa and her brother, their family also included two cousins ​​who were orphaned at an early age.

In 1986 she graduated from the 2nd Moscow State University medical school them. N.I. Pirogova, specializing in pediatric resuscitation and anesthesiology. In the same year, she emigrated to the United States with her husband, American lawyer of Russian origin Gleb Glebovich Glinka.

In 1991 she received her second medical education specialty " palliative medicine" at Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College. She had 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 the first hospice at the Kyiv Oncological Hospital. Member of the board of the Vera Hospice Foundation. Founder and President of the American Foundation VALE Hospice International.

Founded in Moscow in 2007 charitable foundation"Fair Aid", sponsored by the A Just Russia party. The foundation 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 about 200 people per year were sent by the foundation to hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region. The foundation also organizes warming centers for the homeless.

In 2010, Elizaveta Glinka collected material assistance on her own behalf for the benefit of victims of forest fires. In 2012, Glinka and her foundation organized a collection of items for flood victims in Krymsk. In addition, she participated in a fundraising event for flood victims, during which more than 16 million rubles were collected.

In 2012, together with other well-known public figures, she became the founder of the League of Voters, an organization aimed at monitoring compliance with voting rights citizens. Soon, an unexpected audit was carried out at the Fair Aid Foundation, as a result of which the organization’s accounts were blocked, which, according to Glinka, they did not bother to notify them about. On February 1 of the same year, the accounts were unblocked and the fund continued to operate.

In October 2012, she joined the federal committee of the Civic Platform party. In November of the same year she was included in the Presidential Council Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights (list of members approved by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 12, 2012 No. 1513).

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 that 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.”

Together with the All-Russian Popular Front, she organized the march and rally “We are United” in the center of Moscow on November 4, 2014, in which a number of parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties of Russia took part. According to Glinka herself: “the purpose of the action is to demonstrate that we are for unity and peace, that we must be able to negotiate, and if society does not know how to listen to each other, then tragedies like in Donbass happen,” and also: “a reminder of unity of the Russian people, about the need for their unification. Nowadays a very difficult situation is developing around Russia. These are both sanctions and unsubstantiated accusations.”

In 2015 and 2016, she visited a citizen of Ukraine, who was subjected to trial in the city of Rostov. According to the sister and lawyers of the detainee, the Russian woman offered Savchenko to admit guilt and get a prison sentence, after which she would be pardoned.

Since 2015, during the war in Syria, Elizaveta Glinka has repeatedly visited the country on humanitarian missions - she was involved in the delivery and distribution of medicines, organizing the provision of medical care civilian population Syria.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on December 25, 2016, she was on board a Tu-154 that crashed near Sochi. Her husband confirmed this fact.

Personal life of Elizaveta Glinka:

The husband is an American lawyer of Russian origin, Gleb Glebovich Glinka, the son of the Russian poet and literary critic, second-wave emigrant Gleb Aleksandrovich Glinka, a descendant of a famous noble family.

Children: three sons (two natural and one adopted), who live in the USA.

State awards and public recognition of Elizaveta Glinka:

Order of Friendship (May 2, 2012) - for achievements in labor, many years of conscientious work, active social activities;
- Insignia “For Good Deeds” (March 23, 2015) - for great contribution to charitable and social activities;
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (2016) - for outstanding achievements in the field of human rights activities;
- Medal “Hurry to do good” (December 17, 2014) - for an active civil position in protecting the human right to life;
- Winner of the ROTOR competition in the category “Blogger of the Year” (2010);
- “Muz-TV Award 2011” in the category “For Contribution to Life”;
- “One Hundred Most Influential Women of Russia” (2011), 58th place;
- “100 Most Influential Women of Russia” by Ogonyok magazine, published in March 2014, took 26th place;
- Winner of the “Own Track” award for 2014 “For fidelity medical debt, for many years of work in helping homeless and disenfranchised people, for saving children in eastern Ukraine.”

The film “Doctor Lisa” by Elena Pogrebizhskaya about the activities of Elizaveta Petrovna was shown on REN TV and won the TEFI-2009 award as the best documentary.

Doctor Lisa (documentary)

She was real- this is what everyone who has ever dealt with Dr. Lisa or even crossed paths with her by chance admits. Not always “keeping pace,” but always true to her position and always consistent in moving towards her goal. Elizaveta Glinka. Doctor Lisa.

She was born into a military family and a famous TV presenter with a medical education. The family had two more adopted children. Prosperous family, many friends and acquaintances from various professions. But she chose the most ungrateful.

Doctor Lisa about myself especially for the site:

“There were people who had a tremendous influence on me in choosing a profession. My main profession is my mother’s profession. I’ve always, from about five years old, as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to do what I’ve been doing all my life.”

Full video interview Doctor Liz s:

Alien pain, someone else's life, strangers suffering, someone else's hopelessness, someone else's despair. This is what she dedicated herself to. Immediately after school I entered the Second Moscow Institute named after Pirogov. “Pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist,” was written on her diploma when, in 1986, she and her husband, an American lawyer who came from an old Russian family, emigrated in the USA, where five years later she received her second medical education in palliative medicine. In parallel with her studies at Darmouth Medical School, she worked in hospices, which at that time did not yet exist in Russia. Elizaveta Glinka gave five years of her life to these institutions, acquiring a priceless experience and having established himself in correctness chosen life path.

This experience was acute in demand in Russia, where Elizaveta soon returned with her family and immediately began to participate in the work of the First Moscow Hospice. Then there was a move to Ukraine, where Doctor Lisa, as she was already called by that time, founded the first hospice at the Kyiv oncological hospital. Upon returning to Moscow, she created a charity fund“Fair Aid”, which provided material and medical assistance to those dying from cancer, as well as low-income patients and fellow citizens who had lost their homes and jobs. Muscovites living in the area of ​​Paveletsky Station are very familiar with these people with an emblem depicting two palms stretching towards each other. Every week they distribute medicine and clothes to homeless people huddled against the walls of the station, provide them material And legal support. Every year, Foundation employees send at least 200 people, establish and maintain heating centers for the homeless during the cold season, and help those who have lost their documents return home.

Natural disasters, so common in Russian latitudes, have always been the focus of attention of Dr. Lisa and her associates. Time after time they organized collection funds and things for the benefit of victims of forest fires, floods, earthquakes, avalanches.

In the fall of 2012, Elizaveta Glinka became a member of the federal committee of Mikhail Prokhorov's Civic Platform party and was included in the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights.

The outbreak of the war in Donbass forced Elizabeth to learn to provide assistance in conditions of armed conflict. From the first days of the confrontation, she and the volunteers of the “Fair Aid” foundation supported people who found themselves in hot spots, debugged cooperation with the International Red Cross. Elizaveta Glinka did not share the position of many of her comrades in the liberal camp, saying that, regularly visiting the Donbass, she did not see Russian troops there. She also did not agree with the thesis about annexation Crimea.

Doctor Lisa:

“When they say that Crimea is empty, they are lying. Because even the people I work with are already saying: we will go to Crimea. And even with people with a mentally ill child, they will go to Crimea for the second time; before they could not afford it, but now they have free trips. And this is a topic that I understand. I don’t really understand politics, geopolitics, but I’m happy here».

Full video interview Doctor Lisa:

Throughout the two years of Nadezhda Savchenko’s imprisonment, Doctor Lisa visited her in prison, providing moral support and offering to admit guilt for subsequent pardon.

From the first day of Russia's participation in the Syrian conflict, Dr. Lisa fine-tuned and expanded the channels of necessary medical assistance to civilians Syria. Three days before the tragedy, the President of Russia presented her with a state award for charity. "Tomorrow I'm flying to Donets to, from there to Syria. We are never sure that we will return from there, war is hell on earth,” said the director of the Fair Aid Foundation at the presentation ceremony.

... On December 25, 2016, the waters of the Black Sea closed forever over the head of Dr. Lisa and the heads of 91 other people. She did not make it to Syria, where she was carrying a shipment of medicines and medical instruments for the hospital. She flew away to Eternity.

Doctor Lisa. There is sorrow in our house.

Doctor Lisa:

"I would like the Ten Commandments to become national idea for any state. And the world would be a better place, and people would love each other."

Full video interview Doctor Liz s:

P.S. The Republican Children's Hospital in Grozny will now bear the name of Elizaveta Glinka. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced this today. The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, allowed Doctor Lisa to be canonized.

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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! Feels like 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 highest risk 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 observed 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 at on a paid basis, the nurses do everything perfectly when it comes to completing assignments.

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 information platform, and one former patient and mine close friend told me to 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 in medicine different directions. 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 later life– this 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 you don’t touch medicine, from sellers who deal with a large number people with different characters.

– 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 first Moscow 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, the economic situation was simply terrible after the collapse 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 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 our Orthodox way of 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 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 experience this pain every day from the loss of cancer patients – this is the most large number 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 virtually consulting a woman from Krasnodar region... From Ukhta, from regions of Russia, from Odessa - where hospices are inaccessible - but they read that there is a place where these patients can somehow be helped - 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 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 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.

– Please tell me, 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 guarantee the literalness of the quote, but approximately the following words: “those who die are amazing 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, 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...

February 20 is the birthday of the executive director of the Fair Aid Foundation, Elizaveta Glinka, widely known as Dr. Lisa. Let us remind you that she passed away on December 25, 2016. Elizaveta was on board a Tu-154 Ministry of Defense aircraft that crashed in the Black Sea. Life without her seems to have stopped for those who depended on her, for whom she was the last hope...

Doctor Lisa

Elizaveta Glinka was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow into a military family. Higher education she received at the Pirogov Medical Institute. Having mastered the specialty of pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist, she left Russia with her husband.

In America, Glinka began working in a hospice. She devoted five years to this work. In her own words, she was shocked human attitude to hopeless patients in these institutions. They had the opportunity to say goodbye to their families and gain something important from life.

In 1991, Glinka received a second medical specialty in the United States: palliative medicine. Doctors in this specialty provide symptomatic care to incurable patients, primarily those with cancer.

Hospices and "Fair Care"

Having received great experience work in the USA, Elizabeth accepted active participation in the work of the First Moscow Hospice, and in 1999 she founded the first hospice at the Kyiv Cancer Hospital.

Eight years later, in Moscow, Elizaveta Glinka created the Fair Aid charity foundation, sponsored by the A Just Russia party. The foundation provides financial support and medical care to dying cancer patients, low-income non-cancer patients, and the homeless.

Volunteers go to Paveletsky Station weekly to distribute medicine and food to those in need. In addition, they provide free medical and legal assistance. The foundation also organizes warming centers for the homeless.

Help for victims

Dr. Lisa is also known for repeatedly organizing, on her own behalf, the collection of material assistance for victims. And she always managed to collect large sums money that people needed so much. This happened in 2010 after massive forest fires, and in 2012 after the flood in Krymsk. The foundation also organized warming points for the homeless and collected tens of kilograms of humanitarian aid. These charity campaigns brought Glinka nationwide fame.

The armed conflict in Ukraine did not pass Dr. Lisa by either. She has been to the combat zone many times. Her foundation provided assistance to people living in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

In October 2014, the name of Dr. Lisa thundered after her accusations against International Committee red cross. Glinka stated that the refusal to provide guarantees for a cargo of medicines under the pretext “we don’t like your president’s policies” is simply unacceptable. The head of the ICRC regional delegation in Russia, Belarus and Moldova, Pascal Cutta, denied these accusations.

Since 2015, during the war in Syria, Elizaveta Glinka has repeatedly visited the country on humanitarian missions - she was engaged in the delivery and distribution of medicines, and organizing the provision of medical care to the civilian population of Syria.

Defending rights

In 2012, together with other well-known public figures, Dr. Lisa became the founder of the League of Voters. This organization was supposed to monitor compliance with citizens' voting rights. After that, an unexpected inspection came to her “Fair Aid” fund. Then all the organization’s accounts were blocked. Already on February 1 of the same year, the accounts were unblocked, and the fund continued to operate.

In October 2012, Elizaveta Glinka joined the federal committee of Mikhail Prokhorov’s Civic Platform party. Already in November she was included in the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights.

30 years old 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, Elizaveta 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 origin, 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. Elizaveta Petrovna was attracted not by physical strength, but by the ability to make decisions and bear responsibility for them. If the man was still smart and educated, then she could well fall in love with him. Gleb Glebovich Glinka studied and brilliantly graduated from college English literature, and then 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 excellently.

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