"There was no conjuncture in her help"

Friends and colleagues remember Elizabeth Glinka

On the morning of December 25, immediately after taking off from Adler Airport, the aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which performed a flight to Syria, crashed. 92 people died - all who were on board. Among them is the philanthropist, the doctor and executive director of the Fair Assistance charity foundation Elizabeth Glinka, known as Dr. Lisa. Glinka brought medicines to victims of hostilities. Medusa collected the statements of friends and colleagues Glinka - about herself and her work.

Mikhail Fedotov

Head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights; Necrologist published on the Council website

The mind refuses to understand that it is no longer with us. The heart refuses to believe it. <...> Dr. Lisa was a universal favorite. And there was nothing for: for many years she had palliative medical care for almost daily, fed homeless people, dressed, gave them shelter. It was she who took out sick and wounded children from Donbass under the bullets so that they could receive help in the best hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It was she who organized a shelter for children with amputated limbs, where they undergo rehabilitation after the hospital. It was she, along with other members of the HRC, was wandered through the pre -trial detention center and colonies in different parts of the country, trying to listen to everyone who needed it, to help everyone. This she literally knocked out money from the regional managers to help hospices, hospitals, shelters, and boarding schools. It was she who collected special means in Moscow pharmacies that helped the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko save her life during her long hunger strike. To save the life of others - it was her mission everywhere: in Russia, in the Donbass, in Syria ...

Until the last we hoped for a miracle. And she herself was a miracle, a heavenly message of virtue.

Mitya Aleshkovsky

Chairman of the Council of the Charitable Fund "Need help"

Lisa always rushed to the aid of everyone who needed her - in different countries. She opened a hospice in Kyiv, engaged in helping homeless in Moscow, helping people with disabilities, palliative patients throughout Russia, people suffering from wars, including Ukraine, flew to Syria with a load of medicines. She was always on the front line - the advanced struggle against death and pain. People like she are units; I do not know where they are being taken and made of. She will be terribly missing.

Many now reproach her that she legitimized the current power. Lisa was always out of politics, despite the fact that she spoke a lot with politicians. She had a photograph with the [Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, with the [leader of the Fair Russia party, Sergey Mironov, she was in some form, she was part of the [“right-hand” businessman Mikhail] Prokhorov-but she always did this in order to provide the maximum amount of assistance. She was an honest and incredibly worthy person. She was, without exaggeration, a real saint.

Ekaterina Chistyakova

Director of the Charity Fund "Give Life"

How few hands are for all the affairs of mercy. The departure of everyone leaves a very large number of people without help and disadvantaged. With the departure of Elizabeth Glinka, the homeless remained like that, everyone who suffers from hostilities in Donetsk and Lugansk. A large gap has formed, it must now be somehow closed. Another landmark has left, a tuning fork, according to which you can determine what is good, what is bad.

Nyuta Federmeser

Founder of the Vera Hospice Fund, the daughter of the founder of the hospice movement in Russia of Vera Million -Million -School; Record published on Facebook

Mom [once] said that if one morning she wakes up and finds out that no one else dies from cancer, then she will joyfully retire, but if Lisa wakes up in the morning and understands that there is no more grief in the world, then she simply will not know how to live on ...

Lisa from the first day was a member of the Board of the Vera Foundation. Mom always stood in her office, standing, Lizina photography. Lisa near the tank. In Kosovo. Indestructible, inexorable, adamant, complex, fearless, always where the worst of all, where help is needed: in the former Yugoslavia, in Donetsk, in Syria, with the homeless at the station, with dying in the hospice.

And her last publication on Facebook on the anniversary of her mother’s death ends with the words: “See you, faith.”

Natalia Loseva

Media producer, journalist

Elizaveta Petrovna gave an idea of ​​social service outside politics, religion, and beliefs. I saw her in very different projects, and for many years I was convinced: for her, the coloring of the recipient of assistance - political, social, ideological - did not matter at all, never. There were no conjuncture in her help. She had the concept of a person in need of help. This is an abnormal position in the ordinary sense. She had such a valve for the pain that worked.

Of course, we had to help her more. It is very embarrassing that I personally did not help as much as necessary. It would be great if we picked up this phenomenon of extra -engineer assistance, made it institute. It would be great if the people who were shocked by what happened thought how they could participate in Lizin work - deeds, money, projects.

Evgeny Berg