Palliative medicine doctor, philanthropist, public figure, Executive Director Foundation "Fair Aid" since 2007. President of the VALE Hospice International Foundation, member of the board of the Vera Hospice Foundation. In January 2012, she became one of the founders of the League of Voters.
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 my studies I worked in intensive care unit one of the Moscow clinics (according to other sources, “Elizaveta Glinka did not work in her specialty for a day”). In the same year, Glinka emigrated to the United States with her husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, a descendant famous family, to which 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 specific place residence. Since 2007, every week on Wednesdays, the foundation’s volunteers went to Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where they distributed food, clothing and medicine to the homeless, and also provided them 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, covering various regions countries. 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 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 Foundation "Fair Aid", 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 former candidate Mayor Oleg Shein has continued his 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.
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 worthy 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 Aid Foundation in 2007; the chairman of this party, Sergei Mironov, also provided active assistance to the work of the foundation (in an interview, Glinka explained that the name of the foundation was her personal gratitude to Mironov). Participated in the foundation's charitable events
It was noted that despite her busy schedule, Glinka reads a lot, her favorite writer is Chekhov; When it comes to music, she prefers classics and old jazz.
Elizaveta Glinka and her husband have three sons, one of them is adopted. Glinka's eldest son is an artist. According to some sources, Glinka is a citizen of the United States and does not have Russian citizenship: they wrote that this is why she does not head the Fair Aid Foundation herself, but is only its executive director (“non-profit funds cannot be created by non-residents”).
On December 25, 2016, Glinka died in a Tu-154 crash near Sochi. She accompanied a shipment of medicines to Syria for the Tishreen University Hospital in Latakia.
Elizaveta Glinka- Russian public figure, human rights activist and philanthropist. Also known as Doctor Lisa.
Biography of Elizaveta Glinka
Elizaveta Glinka born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow. Elizabeth's father Petr Sidorov- military man, and mother - Galina Poskrebyshev a - nutritionist, culinary specialist and TV presenter. Elizabeth’s family also included two of her cousins, who were left without parents.
After graduating from school, Elizaveta entered the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute to major in pediatric resuscitation and anesthesiology. In 1986 she graduated from college, after which she married Gleb Glebovich Glinka and in 1990 she left for the USA. In the USA, Elizabeth received a second higher education specializing in palliative medicine. While living in the USA, Glinka became acquainted with the work of hospices and began collaborating with them.
In the mid-1990s, Elizaveta returned to Russia, where, together with her husband, she took part in the opening of a doctor Vera Millionshchikova First Moscow Hospice. In 1999, Elizaveta and her husband went to Ukraine, where they opened a hospice at the Kyiv Cancer Hospital.
In 2007, Elizabeth founded the international public organization in Moscow under the name “Fair Aid”, sponsored by the “Fair Russia” party. The organization's activities are to provide material support and medical care to people suffering from cancer, the poor and the homeless.
In 2010 Glinka collected financial assistance victims of forest fires.
In 2012, she organized a collection of donations for flood victims in Krymsk. With its help, we managed to collect more than 16 million rubles.
In 2014, with the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, Elizabeth took part in providing assistance to citizens living in the territories of the DPR and LPR. In the same year, together with the All-Russian People's Fund, Glinka organized the “We are United” rally, which took place in the center of Moscow.
Since 2015, Dr. Lisa has repeatedly visited Syria on humanitarian missions.
On December 25, 2016, Elizabeth tragically died in a plane crash near Sochi. She accompanied the party on board the plane medicines to Syria and for the Tishreen University Hospital in Latakia. She was identified by DNA testing in early 2017.
After her death, Elizaveta Glinka was awarded the medal “25 Years of the Federal Customs Service of Russia” for active interaction with customs authorities and the medal “For Purity of Thoughts and Nobility of Deeds” for her invaluable contribution to the triumph of Goodness and Peace on earth.
In 2018 it became known that the director Oksana Karas plans to make a film about Elizaveta Glinka called "Doctor Lisa", main role in which actress Chulpan Khamatova will perform.
Personal life of Elizaveta Glinka
Elizaveta Glinka was married to Gleb Glebovich Glinka. Gleb's father is a Russian poet and literary critic Gleb Alexandrovich Glinka. Grandfather Gleb was a Russian journalist, publicist, literary critic Alexander Sergeevich Glinka, who published under a pseudonym Volzhsky. Gleb Glebovich lives in the USA, where he practices law.
Elizaveta and Gleb have three children: sons Konstantin, Alexei and foster Ilya. On this moment Konstantin And Alexei live in the USA with their father, and Ilya- in Saratov.
Elizaveta Glinka adhered to Orthodox religious beliefs. I have always been against euthanasia.
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.
Swift romance
An exhibition of expressionists was held at the House of Artists in Moscow, where Elizaveta met her future husband, Gleb Glinka. Young Lisa asked the 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.
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.
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 physical strength, but 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 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 exam in Russian Bar Association and also excellent.
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.
Between America and Russia
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.
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.
Measure of good
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.
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.
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.
“We were very happy together”
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.
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 went at the behest of her heart to where she was needed.
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...”
Dr. Lisa married an American citizen and lived happily with him for 30 years, until death separated them.
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 Development Council 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, there were two people living in their family cousins, left early orphans. 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 immigrated 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” in Moscow, sponsored by the “A Just Russia” party. The organization provides material support and provides medical assistance dying cancer patients, low-income non-cancer patients, homeless people. 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 voting rights 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 joined the federal committee 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 International Committee The Red Cross (ICRC) in 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.
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.
Fragile, but only in appearance, with large, understanding eyes that seemed to look straight into the soul, Elizaveta Glinka cared for the homeless, the sick and the dying. Despite constant criticism and even threats, Dr. Lisa did not retreat from her plans and achieved her goal - in both possible and impossible ways. The human rights activist could reach any person, sometimes by uttering only a few words.
Glinka believed that not a single event of the Fair Aid Foundation could take place without her direct participation, so she rushed to the hottest spots in the world. However, Elizaveta Petrovna was unable to save all those in need...
How it all began
Despite the fact that as a child Elizaveta Glinka was interested in ballet and music, she never faced the question of which university to enter. Little Lisa realized quite early that her purpose was to heal people.
The girl, who spent a lot of time in the hospital because her mother worked in an ambulance, one day became a doctor herself - a pediatric resuscitator-anesthesiologist.
The human rights activist began her charitable activities, thanks to which she became famous, much later, in the 2000s. And in the late 1980s, immediately after graduation, Elizaveta, who had many admirers, met her future husband Gleb Glinka, an American lawyer 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.
Elizabeth created the first similar organization and took part in the opening of the Russian hospice fund “Vera”.
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.
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 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 quite 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.
The worst thing is not being on time
Doctor Lisa saved sick children wherever she could, including in the Donbass. In response to all accusations of interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine, Glinka stated that children are the same everywhere and they all need help, so she independently took the children away from the war zone, without fear that they could die at any moment. By the way, Elizabeth was never afraid to risk her life: she loved driving fast and jumping with a parachute.
The only thing that scared her was the prospect of not being able to help all those who needed help.
After the start of the war in Syria, Glinka immediately organized the collection of medicines and things there. In this case, too, it was important for Dr. Lisa to monitor the process of delivering the necessary humanitarian aid to those affected by the hostilities, although her relatives persuaded her not to do this.
On December 8, 2016, Vladimir Putin presented Elizaveta Glinka with the State Prize of the Russian Federation for her contribution to human rights activities.
Then the philanthropist admitted in her speech that she was never sure that she would return from another trip to a war zone. Alas, these words turned out to be prophetic...
On December 25 of the same year, Glinka was going to go to Latakia, but almost no one knew about it. When the plane crash occurred over the Black Sea, many of Glinka’s acquaintances hoped until the last that she was not among the passengers. Only with the help of a DNA test were experts able to confirm the fact that Glinka died in a plane crash without providing assistance to those to whom she was heading.
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