Normal hero

Forty days already with us are not Ekaterina Yuryevna Genieva.

They talked and wrote a lot about Ekaterina Yuryevna. But it was so arranged that it was simply impossible to lie or speak badly about her.

Among all the completely fair words were the words about her mission, her courage, her talents. The loss is really irreparable. She has no replacement. Yes, and replacement is impossible.

Everyone who knew her, everyone who saw, all who listened and read, thought about her significance in culture, in a Russian word. But it seems to me that one important feature of Ekaterina Yuryevna remained not noticed. It's not about intent or negligence. The fact is that this feature obliges us all.

The normality of Ekaterina Yuryevna. Yes, yes, I did not describe-normality. What I want to say often seems to us something out of the ordinary, but for her it was natural, it was impossible, impossible.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was a normal patriot. She did not understand how to love the homeland by ordering, by order, from 9:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. She loved Russia and every second her life proved that Russia is a normal country. Where normal people live with their advantages and disadvantages. She never set herself above others. All her work was devoted to the exaltation of the culture of the Fatherland. And she made in this field many more other “note” patriots.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was a normal citizen. She was not sideways from the events in society, did not hide and did not rush to the extremes. She believed that the statement of her position is normal and necessarily. I do not remember the case when Ekaterina Yuryevna was silent or did anything that did not correspond to her position.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was a normal Christian. She did not let a tear of tenderness under the camera in front of the images, did not speak on every corner about her faith, she was not baptized on every cross. But everyone who knew her knew the feeling of a kind of grace that everyone experienced next to her. She lived with God. The Lord helped her transfer the torment and did not give the disease to break her. I did not see saints, but those calm and patience with which she endured a terrible illness were amazing.

In our Palestines, it seems that it is difficult to live according to conscience, to adequately respond to reality, honestly do your work, and sincerely believe. This is wrong. Ekaterina Yuryevna would have raised an eyebrow if she were told that this is a feat.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was an outstanding librarian, but she considered herself a normal professional. She did not work for the authorities, but for people and for enlightenment. The “good indicators”, which the minister spoke of farewell, were not because she strove for them, but because she created normal (normal good, and not normal bad) conditions for work.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was an outstanding scientist, but she was engaged in normal science, and not the “political problems of international relations of global and regional development” and not even international logistics, not business and not civil service. Its books read excitedly, they are written not for the day of the day.

Never, even in a private conversation, Ekaterina Yuryevna did not allow herself emotional statements about someone. She tried to understand and justify even obvious ill -wishers. The maximum that she could afford is to say that she does not like what he/she does. Extremely rare! Ekaterina Yuryevna considered normal to maintain normal relations with people. Tolerance not only in the opening of the centers created by her, but also in everyday life she considered the norm . When suddenly many began to show extreme intolerance, and the word “tolerance” itself became almost a curse, Ekaterina Yuryevna raised an eyebrow in her characteristic manner. The raised eyebrows were not a gesture of condemnation, but surprise and misunderstanding. She really surprised her why people hide behind the chimeras, commit stupid and meaningless acts, and lie.

Ekaterina Yuryevna was a normal cultural person. For her, culture did not know the boundaries, it was surprised (an eyebrow rose) when some non-teaching was judged, “ours” or not “our” Joyce, or Dr. Gaaz, or Dostoevsky, or Ulitskaya, or Wilde. She freely (in the literal and figurative sense) could talk about painting, poetry, literature with the English Lord and a visitor to the Kamchatka library.

Ekaterina Yuryevna did not know how to "fear for the future." To live on the slogan “no matter what happened” she considered it immoral and abnormal . It was amazing for her when people were afraid to do their work with an eye on non -existent dangers. She believed that it was necessary to be afraid not to fulfill their duty, to betray enlightenment, education, culture, and not lose the “place”.

They write and talk a lot about Ekaterina Yuryevna. They write about her outstanding virtues. I do not want to belittle them at all, God forbid! Her life and her activity are a feat. But I want to say about something else. In our Palestines, it seems that it is difficult to live according to conscience, to adequately respond to reality, honestly do your work, and sincerely believe. This is wrong. Ekaterina Yuryevna would have raised an eyebrow if she were told that this is a feat. This is an example to us all. All remaining. We cannot, we should not justify our laziness, cowardice, mediocrity by circumstances. Ekaterina Yuryevna would not understand us.