Ekaterina Genieva died

In Israel, in the 70th year of life, a philologist, literary critic, general director of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature Ekaterina Genieva died. She had the fourth stage of cancer.

In 1968, Genieva graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. She is the author of articles dedicated to the work of Charles Dickens, Jane Austin, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, James Joyce, Ivlina Vu, Virginia Wolf, Susan Hill and other authors. In 2006, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic "Library as a center of intercultural communication."

Since 1972, Genieva worked at VGbil. In 1989, she became the first deputy director, in 1993 she headed the library. Genieva was elected vice president of the Russian Library Association and the first vice president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

Since 1995, Genieva has been one of the heads of cultural programs of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) in Russia. In October 1997, she became the president of the Russian Institute of Open Society and remained for him until the termination of the fund's activities in Russia.

Genieva was part of the Federal Civil Committee of the Civil Platform party.

Genieva was awarded the Order of the British Empire, the Order of the Legion of Honor, the Orders of Chile, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Brazil, and other countries.

“I understand perfectly that I am sick, that it’s not eternal. And for example, I have a contract in April. That is, less than a year. What is my plan in connection with this? Of course, I would like to work as a certain amount of time in the library. But I’m already starting to think very seriously, who can come instead of me. And how to make the structure to save. I will be able to do it? I don’t know,” said Genia, ”said Genia in Genia in Genia in Interview "Medusa" published on July 3.