Holy homeless lady. E. Glinka. Life, work and tragic death of elizaveta glinka - doctor and public figure, volunteer and philanthropist Doctor liza short biography good deeds

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

It seems that Elizaveta Glinka devoted her whole life to good deeds. She helped those who no one wanted to help. Her main patients are hopeless, dying, useless. Nobody but her. Every day Dr. Lisa made small miracle. We remember her good deeds to be proud and take an example.

Started doing palliative care

By education, Elizaveta Petrovna is a pediatric resuscitator-anaesthesiologist. If she had stayed with him, she would certainly have been a brilliant doctor. But fate decreed that while confirming her medical degree in the United States, she accidentally ended up in the palliative care unit.

It was many years ago, I had no idea then what kind of place it was. Standing in front of the sign, I asked: what is it? My husband replied, "This is the place where people die."

Elizaveta Petrovna has repeatedly said that she does not love, even hates death. But then she wanted to go inside. Then Glinka said:
When I saw a tiny hospice in Burlington, where 24 patients lie and the medical staff fulfill their every wish, when it turned out that people on the verge of death can be clean, fed, unhumiliated - it turned my life upside down.

For five years, Elizaveta Petrovna attended the hospice as a volunteer and learned how to care, not heal. And when specialization in palliative medicine appeared in America, she immediately unlearned it. And in 1999, she founded the first hospice in Kyiv at an oncological hospital.

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

Adopted her patient's child

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

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

Removed more than a hundred children from the war zone

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

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

More recently, on last week, Dr. Lisa brought 17 more babies from Donbass for treatment and rehabilitation in Moscow hospitals.

Opened the first children's palliative department in Ulyanovsk

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

I will oversee this department. I want children to be provided not only with oxygen concentrators, diapers and the rest, but also with consumables that are often not available. It is no secret that such orphanages and such children are funded, unfortunately, on a leftover basis. They will not be adopted, they will never recover.

But you can maintain their lives in a decent condition so that they feel comfortable. If suffocating, give oxygen. The position in which he sits is uncomfortable - find devices to make him comfortable. Abroad, hospices have a lot of special devices, up to spoons that are used to feed. We don't have any of that. You need to start somewhere...

Dr. Lisa wanted to open such departments at every specialized Children's Home, in all regions of Russia.

Brought medical supplies to the war zone

The Fair Aid Foundation confirmed that on her last flight, Elizaveta Petrovna was carrying medicines to the University Hospital of Latakia: medicines for cancer patients, for newborns, expendable materials who did not go there because of the war and sanctions. A month ago, during the presentation of state awards in the Kremlin, Elizaveta Petrovna delivered a speech in which she said:

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

Alas, Doctor Lisa knew what she was talking about. The words with which she ended her speech turned out to be prophetic:
We're never sure we'll make it back alive because war is hell on earth and I know what I'm talking about. But we are sure that kindness, compassion and mercy work stronger than any weapon.

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (commonly known as Doctor Lisa; February 20, 1962, Moscow - December 25, 2016, the Black Sea near Sochi, Russia) is a Russian public figure and human rights activist. Philanthropist, resuscitator by education, specialist in the field of palliative medicine(USA), Executive Director of the International public organization"Just Help". Member of the Development Council under the President of Russia civil society and human rights.

By decision of the Minister of Defense of Russia, the name of Elizabeth Glinka will be assigned to one of medical institutions Ministry of Defense. The Republican Children's Clinical Hospital in Grozny and the hospice in Yekaterinburg will be named after her.

Elizaveta Glinka did not immediately begin to feed and treat the homeless at the Paveletsky railway station, before that she managed to organize a hospice in Kyiv in 1999. Together with the late Vera Millionshchikova, whom Glinka calls a teacher, friend and keeper of her secrets and tears, they introduced the concept of hospice into our lives, and in fact, this could be put an end to, since they cannot bring anything kind people, confident that the country and the sick need numerous hospices.

But still, I will describe in detail the activities of Glinka, as far as this can be done, having received information from publicly available sources.

Glinka's biography on the Internet is presented very sparingly. Wikipedia says that she was born in 1962, in 1986 she graduated from the Moscow 2nd medical school. institute. Pirogov, specialty doctor-resuscitator. In the same year she emigrated to the United States, where in 1991 she received a second medical education in Palliative Medicine from Dartmund Medical School.

From other sources it turns out that she married an American of Russian origin Gleb Glinka, 14 years older, gave birth to 2 sons. Her husband is a successful lawyer, director of the Moscow office of the American Bar Association (ABA-ROLI). That's all. What exactly did she do for so many years, where did she work, and why did she suddenly decide to return?

Elizaveta Petrovna also calls herself Doctor Liza, and this is no longer a living person, but a mythical character with common noun. The name was chosen psychologically accurately: the word "doctor" is strongly associated in the mass consciousness with a good man and a noble profession (the story "The Wonderful Doctor", "the good doctor Aibolit, he sits under a tree...", "Doctor Zhivago", etc.) in contrast to the doctor ("killer doctors", thieves). The name Lisa is soft, feminine: L-and-and-and-for. " Poor Lisa”, “You are waiting, Lizaveta, for greetings from your husband, and you don’t sleep until dawn, you are still sad about me ...”.

A person called "Doctor Lisa" inspires confidence and unaccountable sympathy, not like, say, "doctor Rivkina" or Rabinovich. By the way, maiden name Elizabeth Petrovna is not mentioned anywhere.

In plots and documentaries that abundantly record the movements of Elizaveta Petrovna between railway stations, hospices and the office, she is presented exclusively from an excellent side. A small, fragile woman with huge eyes stands alone against the corrupt state. system.
What message is read, for example, from this photo. An orphan/homeless/starving person slumped on Glinka's fragile shoulder, whom she consoles in a motherly way, while at the same time overcoming the heartache from reading the letter of another orphan/starving person. We see inhuman torment in the eyes of Glinka, who also wants to hug the addressee unknown to us, but so far cannot do it, which is why she suffers unbearably.

She cares for the disadvantaged and outcast by society, those from whom everyone turned away, except for her. I just want to burst into grateful tears, fall on my knees and sob: “Holy, holy!”

Feeding some child for show, photographs, interestingly, Rustem Adagamov, hiding from accusations of pedophilia.

Glinka does not work alone, but everything is filmed in such a way that other people look like a background that sets off her selfless work. They hardly say anything and the audience doesn't know who they are.

The true character and true motivation of Glinka's work is coming out of all the cracks.

Turns out the selfless doctor loves super-expensive things like the $2,000 bag she takes to visit. dying at home(from the film by E. Pogrebizhskaya "Doctor Lisa"). However. When the heroines of the series "Sex in big city» buying $485 shoes or a $4,000 Birkin bag is understandable and logical, exorbitant spending is the essence of their consumer characters and idle life. Organically looks absurd expensive bag some kept woman with a horse's jaw and a defect in diction. But for a social worker and a philanthropist who spends half her life in the "garbage heap" (her name) with the homeless and the dying, a bag for 60,000 rubles is somehow out of order.

In some interviews, she calls herself Orthodox, in others, for example, in a conversation with Shenderovich, she does not give an answer about her faith. From the content of the statements, one can understand that if she knows anything about Orthodoxy, then only its ritual, external side. Yes, and here she is not strong, she calls crowns a crown, when she meets a priest she climbs to him with hugs, etc.

Glinka's future projects include an increase in the number of hospices in Russia, including for children, the creation of a hospital for the poor and windows for the reception of foundlings, as in Poland. I would offer her another line of work: helping prostitutes. It will turn out no less spectacular show than with the homeless. Prostitutes will tell heartbreaking stories about a damned life that forces them to such a “job”, about the impossibility of getting a job anywhere else, about how they help children and parents who are left at home. Dr. Lisa will put bandages on their faces broken by clients and distribute contraceptives, and they will burst into drunken tears and promise never, never again!

From the very beginning, when I first saw the stories with Glinka, I was scratched by her manner of speaking with sick people and the homeless. She flirts, flirts and is familiar. A stunning sight is presented by Glinka at the bedside of a dying man, she giggles and says how good he looks, and soon they will be dancing with him.

“How little a person needs to be happy,” E. Glinka writes on her blog, posting pictures of orphanage children smeared chocolates that they gave them. No, Mrs. Glinka, how little it takes to deceive people with sentimental pictures.

I have a firm conviction that this woman asserts herself against the background of unambiguously unfortunate, sick people with a damaged psyche and reduced criticism of people. She revels in their misfortunes, hiding behind the guise of care and attention, although she does this not quite consciously and cynically. No, I think that Glinka is in deep charm, that is, she is confident in her infallibility, holiness and rightness. A circle of the same mentally damaged individuals has formed around her, who receive moral satisfaction from the fact that there are people who are even more flawed than they are, and they allegedly help someone who is at the very bottom of the social ladder. They look into her mouth, and her every action is accompanied by shouts: “Bow to you!”, “Thank you for being you”, “I take my hat off to you”, “You are a saint!”. All comments of this kind Glinka leaves in LiveJournal.

In an interview " Novaya Gazeta She said that she does not consider herself any saint, she is an ordinary woman, she smokes and swears. What kind of concept ordinary woman. In case, God forbid, she is cut down by a bum who has sniffed glue, you need to remember her words, otherwise, with the current impoverishment of role models, they will soon begin to canonize such people.

Glinka constantly lies, talking about the lack of organization of social assistance in Moscow. “The homeless cannot get into shelters, they are all packed, and selection there is like entering the faculty of higher mathematics.” "The homeless are accepted only with a Moscow residence permit." It's a lie. When I wrote to her on the blog that this is not so, that there are always places, they accept everyone, and social adaptation centers are not filled, because most of the homeless themselves do not want to obey simple rules(do not drink vodka, wash, do not carry prohibited items), she replied - yes, you are also right, but did not answer further on the merits. But how can two diametrically opposed points of view be true?

I repeatedly wrote to her that homeless people can eat in free canteens, get clothes, and I always asked the question: why do you say the opposite? She is not interested in the real picture of the provision of social assistance, it is beneficial for her to create a false appearance of complete indifference of all government systems and individuals to the problem of homelessness. And only she alone takes care of them, feeds, heals, clothes, draws up documents, with the help of philanthropists. "I love people, and those who have a house, and the homeless," as she modestly explained once.

Stories about homeless people can impress people who are far from the problems of social assistance in Moscow. However, if you look closely, you can find that for some reason, young Caucasians are standing behind the soup, their hats pulled low over their eyes and clearly not wanting to be in the frame (TVC December 2010). Old woman says that although she has a Moscow residence permit and a passport, she was refused in all clinics, and for a month she could not bandage her injured head, and only Doctor Lisa helped her. Another old woman, who came for soup, says that her pension is not enough for anything at all, and help in the social center is provided only if you bring a mountain of certificates, and it is impossible to collect them.

Well, don't lie so brazenly. It is obvious that these old women have mental disorders or dementia and invent all sorts of nonsense, and journalists teach their nonsense as a reflection of true Moscow life.

Incredibly, Glinka herself understands that something is deeply wrong in her activities, but she prefers to discard unpleasant thoughts about the futility of feeding the homeless, and replaces them with conviction in her messianic task.
From the movie "My friend is Dr. Lisa"(author Tofig Shahverdiyev):

- And what about the state, why is life like this? ..

Glinka:you know, if I ask such questions, I won't be able to work, I know that for sure. There is a sense in this, there is no point in it ... Neither I nor Sergei Petrovich will be able to go to the station and feed them. I just know that if I don't come on Wednesday, they will be hungry or they will eat from the dump.

Glinka is supported by many businessmen and the rich. It would seem strange that smart people - and they are definitely smart, a fool will not earn millions - people contribute to Glinka's fund and give her money. Why do they not see the deceit and inefficiency of its activities? I think the answer is here. Every person wants to be considered good. The last rascal thinks he's a good person. As St. Theophan (Govorov) wrote, “he himself is rubbish rubbish, but he keeps saying - it’s not like other people.” Having stolen large fortunes, the rich are looking for ways to justify their lives, their huge stolen and stolen millions and billions. And how convenient, you can donate small crumbs to charity, thereby justifying your exorbitant money-grubbing and tax evasion. The very people who finance the feeding of the homeless with one hand and rob their subordinates with the other are grossly violating Labor Code, bribe officials, are rude and humiliate. But their conscience is calmed down with the help of homeless people and Dr. Lisa. Some, for sure, act quite cynically and consciously, and it is from them that attempts to introduce tax incentives for charity come.

Glinka is unanimously praised by all TV channels and Ekho Moskvy, a dozen films have been made about her. Separate critical voices of residents living near the Paveletsky railway station and suffering from an increase in the number of stinking, dirty and drunk people as a result of Glinka's stormy activities, drown in the chorus of doxology. As long as the state is interested in spending billions on fictitious aid, the existence of people like Glinka will be beneficial for it, because such benefactors do not investigate the causes social problems, do not generalize and do not analyze the experience. They do not want to reform the state aid system, they do not make any constructive proposals, they do not argue with officials, except for some trifling reasons. They are not really interested in the eradication or visible reduction of social deviations, they want the homeless and the needy to exist forever, then they will always have a front of work and the opportunity to stay in a halo of holiness.

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Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka "Doctor Liza" Russian public figure and human rights activist. Philanthropist, resuscitator by education, specialist in the field of palliative medicine, executive director of the International Public Organization "Fair Help". Member of the Council under the President of Russia for the development of civil society and human rights.

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Biography Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (commonly known under the pseudonym Doctor Lisa) was born on February 20, 1962 in Moscow into a military family. In 1986, Elizaveta Glinka graduated from the Pirogov Second Medical Institute with a diploma in pediatric resuscitation anesthesiologist. During her studies, she worked in the intensive care unit of a Moscow clinic. In the same year, Glinka emigrated to the United States with her husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, and 3 sons, one of whom is adopted.

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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 more from life that something important"). In 1991, Glinka received a second medical education in the United States, graduating from Dartmouth Medical School with a degree in palliative medicine: doctors in this specialty provide symptomatic care to terminally ill patients, primarily with oncological diseases. In 1999, she founded the first hospice in Kyiv at the Oncological Hospital in Kyiv.

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In 2007, when her mother fell ill, Glinka moved to Moscow. In July of that year, she founded charitable foundation"Fair help" and became his executive director. The organization was engaged in helping low-income patients and other socially unprotected categories of the population, including people without certain place residence. Since 2007, every week on Wednesdays, the foundation's volunteers went to the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where they distributed food, clothes and medicine to the homeless, and also provided them with medical care. In 2012, Fair Aid took care of over 50 low-income families.

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In August 2010, the Fair Aid Foundation organized a fundraiser for victims of forest fires covering various regions of the country. In the winter of 2010-2011, for freezing people, the foundation founded by Glinka organized points for heating the homeless and collected tens of kilograms humanitarian aid. In 2012, assistance from the Dr. Liza Foundation went to flood-affected Krymsk.

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When the conflict began in the Donbass, Yelizaveta Glinka, of course, did not stand aside. In fact, from the very beginning of the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine, Elizaveta Glinka has been constantly visiting this region with humanitarian missions - she transfers medicines and food to hospitals, and also evacuates sick children.

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In total, from March 2014 to the present day, Dr. Liza has visited Donbass 16 times. During this time, about 160 children were taken out. At the end of August 2015, Glinka opened the House of Mercy in Moscow for families with children who have already undergone treatment but need rehabilitation.

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Since 2015, during the war in Syria, Elizaveta Glinka repeatedly visited the country with humanitarian missions - she was engaged in the delivery and distribution of medicines, and the organization of medical care for the civilian population of Syria.

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 well-known vitaminologist, author of cookery books.

In 1986, Glinka graduated from the Pirogov Second Medical Institute with a diploma in pediatric resuscitation anesthesiologist. During her studies, she worked in the intensive care unit of one of the Moscow clinics (according to other sources, "Elizaveta Glinka did not work a single day in her specialty"). In the same year, Glinka emigrated to the United States with her husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, a descendant of known kind, to which the composer Mikhail Glinka belonged (in some media publications, however, it was claimed that Elizaveta Glinka herself is a descendant of the composer Glinka).

In America, Glinka, on the initiative of her husband, began working in a hospice and, in her own words, was shocked by the human attitude towards hopeless patients in these institutions (“These people are happy,” Glinka later recalled. “They have the opportunity to say goodbye to their relatives, to get more from life that something important"). In 1991, Glinka received a second medical education in the United States, graduating from Dartmouth Medical School with a degree in palliative medicine: doctors in this specialty provide symptomatic care to terminally ill patients, primarily those with cancer (some media indicated that she in the United States "became an oncologist").

In 1994, Glinka, in her own words, “learned that a hospice was being opened in Moscow after Peter,” met and became friends with his 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 for helping the dying in Ukraine, Glinka organized a patronage service for palliative care 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 Yelizaveta Glinka continued to visit the Kyiv hospice regularly 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: "The officials resisted, referring to 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 the Just Help charity foundation and became its executive director. Initially, it was assumed that the foundation would provide palliative care to non-oncological 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 unprotected categories of the population, including people without a fixed place of residence. Starting in 2007, every week on Wednesdays, the foundation's volunteers went to the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where they distributed food, clothes and medicine to the homeless, as well as provided them with medical care. In 2012, Fair Aid took care of more than 50 low-income families from Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk, Tyumen and other Russian cities.

In August 2010, the Fair Aid Foundation organized a fundraiser for victims of forest fires that engulfed various regions of the country. This charity campaign, as noted by the media, brought Glinka all-Russian fame. In the winter of 2010-2011, for freezing people, the foundation founded by Glinka was organizing points for heating the homeless and collected tens of kilograms of humanitarian aid.

In 2012, Glinka also began to actively participate in the socio-political life of Russia. On January 16, 2012, she, along with other public figures, including Yuri Shevchuk, Grigory Chkhartishvili, Leonid Parfenov, Dmitry Bykov, Olga Romanova, Sergei Parkhomenko, Petr 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 Fund "Fair Help", as a result of which on January 26, 2012 the organization's accounts were blocked - for the first time in its entire history. Already on February 1, the accounts were unblocked, and the fund continued its work.

In April 2012, Glinka, as part of a delegation from the League of Voters, visited Astrakhan, where supporters of former mayoral candidate Oleg Shein had been on a hunger strike since March, demanding a review of the election results due to alleged fraud. The purpose of the delegation was to draw public attention to the current situation; during the trip, Glinka managed to convince six participants in the action, whose health condition had deteriorated significantly, to stop the hunger strike. At the end of April, Shein himself stopped the protest, saying that he would continue to seek the cancellation of the election results through the courts. On June 15 of the same year, the court refused to satisfy Shein's demands.

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In July 2012, Glinka and her foundation organized a collection of things for the victims of the devastating flood in Krymsk. She also participated in raising funds for the 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 - member of the board established in 2006 Russian fund assistance to Vera hospices. She has also been mentioned in the media as a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Fellow board of trustees Foundation for Assistance to the Rehabilitation of People with Hearing Problems "Country of the Deaf". 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 were opened in Tula, Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Ulyanovsk, Omsk, Kemerovo, Astrakhan, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Smolensk, she drew public attention to the lack of attention to the training of future palliative medicine specialists; according to Glinka, there are "cases where doctors in the regions have no idea what hospices are." “Hospice is not a house of death. It is a worthy life to the end,” she said in an interview.

Glinka (Doctor Liza) is known as an active blogger (lj-user doctor_liza): since 2005, she has been writing in LiveJournal about the activities of the Fair Help organization. In 2010, Glinka became the winner of the ROTOR network competition in the "Blogger of the Year" nomination.

Elizaveta Glinka is an Orthodox Christian. In interviews, she expressed her negative attitude towards euthanasia many times.

Many politicians, musicians and others helped Glinka's charitable activities. famous people. In 2007, Alexander Chuev, then a State Duma deputy from " Just Russia", the chairman of this party, Sergei Mironov, also actively assisted the work of the fund (in an interview, Glinka explained that the name of the fund was her personal gratitude to Mironov). Boris Grebenshchikov, Yuri Shevchuk, Vyacheslav Butusov, Garik Sukachev, Zemfira, Petr Nalich participated in the fund's charitable activities , Svetlana Surganova and Pelageya Glinka's projects were assisted by Anatoly Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Vitali Klitschko.

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

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and labor. On December 25, 2016, 92 people lost their lives in Sochi. Among those flying a Tu-154 military aircraft to Syria was the famous children's resuscitator Elizaveta Glinka. Until recently, the Russians did not believe that the favorite of many, Doctor Lisa, had died. They said she just couldn't fly that plane. And this is partly true. Literally in last days before leaving, she begged the military to take her to Syria. Elizabeth flew there to bring medicine for children with cancer.

After visiting a hospital in Syria, Dr. Lisa for a long time collected funds for sick children there, as well as for numerous sick people in Syrian cities. They waited for her as the only hope for life. But they didn't wait. The plane crashed 2 minutes after takeoff.

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and work. Elizaveta Glinka was born on February 20, 1962 in the family of a military man and a vitaminologist. Lisa dreamed of becoming a doctor since childhood. In 1986, the girl graduated from the 2nd Pirogov Medical Institute and received the specialty "pediatric anesthetist". When Lisa studied, she worked part-time in the intensive care unit at a Moscow clinic.

However, after graduation, Liza met her future husband, a successful American lawyer with Russian roots, Gleb Glinka, and emigrated to the United States. In America, Elizabeth began working in a hospice and she was struck by how they treat dying and terminally ill people. Having received her second medical education in the United States, Elizaveta Glinka began to dream of opening hospices in her homeland.

And this opportunity soon came to her. Her husband was sent under a contract to Kyiv, and Elizabeth followed him. In Kyiv, she opened her first hospice. When the husband's contract expired, the family returned to the US. However, Glinka regularly visited the hospice in Ukraine and participated in its work.

In 2007, Elizabeth's mother fell ill, and she moved to Moscow with her. There she founded the Fair Aid charity foundation and became its director. Elizabeth herself, in addition to managing the fund, was involved in helping needy patients. Dr. Lisa was recognized in 2010 when her foundation organized a fundraiser for those affected by wildfires. In 2014, Dr. Lisa carried sick and wounded children out from under bullets in the Donbass.

Elizaveta Glinka: biography, family, daily feat and work. Elizabeth Glinka and her husband have three children, one of whom is adopted. The couple's eldest son is an artist.

Dr. Lisa always knew what dangerous work she was doing, but she did it for the sake of saving the lives of others, those who needed help. She was not afraid of pain and was never indifferent. The death of this woman causes special pain, which is almost impossible to cope with.