Natalya Gorbanevskaya died

On the night of November 29, a poet, translator, human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya died in Paris at the age of 77, reports Colta.ru.

Natalya Evgenievna Gorbanevskaya was born in 1936 in Moscow, graduated from the Philfak of the University of Leningrad. She worked in Moscow as a librarian, a bibliographer, a technical and scientific translator.

Since 1959, Gorbanevskaya’s poems spread in Samizdat. In the late 60s, Gorbanevskaya joined the human rights movement. In April 1968, she began publishing a human rights ballot " Chronicle of current events ", the first ten issues were published under her editorship.

On August 25, 1968, Gorbanevskaya participated in a demonstration on Red Square against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia, was detained along with other demonstrators, but on the same day after the search was released. She spoke about the demonstration in a letter addressed to the editors of Western newspapers.

Gorbanevskaya was recognized as insane and given to the care of the mother. She continued human rights, distributed samizdat, took part in the creation of an initiative group to protect human rights in the USSR.

In December 1969, Gorbanevskaya was arrested. According to the results of the examination at the Serbian Institute, she was sent for forced treatment to a special type of psychiatric hospital. The prisoner was transferred from the Kazan Special Physics and Emergencies to Butyrskaya prison. She was released in February 1972. Gorbanevskaya described the history of her violent hospitalization in the essay "Free Medical Assistance", which was distributed in Samizdat.

In 1975, Gorbanevskaya emigrated. She lived in Paris, worked in the journal "Continent" and the newspaper "Russian Thought".

Gorbanevskaya is the author of one and a half dozen poetry books. Translated from Polish, Czech, Slovak and French.

In the post -Soviet era, Gorbanevskaya regularly came to Moscow, published in her homeland and held meetings with readers. In recent years, she actively participated in public life, led a blog , signed petitions, and was a member of the Grand club . On August 25 of this year, Gorbanevskaya and activists of "Solidarity" celebrated the 45th anniversary of the action against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Exactly at noon with the battlefield, 12 people on Red Square launched a stretch with the text "for our and your freedom."

The “facets” express the deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of Natalia Evgenievna.