Elizaveta Glinka adopted Ilya Shvets after his mother died of cancer in 2008. A resident of Saratov suffered from cancer and was a patient of the Doctor Lisa Foundation.
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Ilya's relatives did not even want to pay for his mother's funeral. Then everything fell on Glinka’s fragile shoulders. When the boy flatly refused to go to the shelter, she decided to take him into her family. “So, we went to the guardianship, wrote a statement, and that’s how I got him. The irony of fate: Ilyusha is a mixed race, his father was dark-skinned. I was thinking about what to tell the children: I went to Russia, and also brought a child. I said. The eldest said: “It’s normal, but what?” And the younger one is more emotional: “What are you talking about! Do I really have a black brother now? What's it like in Harlem? How cool, great!” Doctor Lisa said in an interview.
Afterwards it turned out that Ilya was adopted twice. In 1994, he was found right on the street, in a box, not far from a hostel in Ulyanovsk. In the baby’s home, 35-year-old Galina, who herself once grew up in an orphanage, noticed him and decided to adopt him. Nevertheless, the happiness did not last long: soon the family was forced to move to Saratov and was left without a roof over their head.
After long wanderings in shelters and knocking on the thresholds of local officials, Galina and her adopted son received an apartment, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda in Saratov. However, it turned out that the one-room housing was in terrible condition, so local residents began collecting money for renovations for the family.
But then a new misfortune awaited Ilya - his adoptive mother was diagnosed with advanced stage cancer. As a result, the woman died within two years: neither surgery nor chemotherapy courses helped.
At first, Ilya lived with his adoptive family in Moscow, but then moved back to Saratov and went to college to become a cook. At first, the young man wanted to quit his studies and return to the capital, but Doctor Lisa dissuaded him. “And then he settled down. Like, his “aunt” in the capital told him: “Don’t even think about it: you’ll move as soon as you get your diploma.” We couldn’t even imagine that this aunt was Elizaveta Glinka...” - they said at the college where he studies young man.
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In the Assumption Church of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow on the morning of Monday, January 16, a farewell was held for the doctor and philanthropist Elizaveta Glinka, who died on December 25 in a plane crash over the Black Sea. Doctor Lisa's funeral will take place at the Novodevichy cemetery in the capital.
Everyone was able to say goodbye to Elizaveta Glinka during the civil funeral service in the Assumption Church from 8 to 14 o'clock on Monday, according to the website of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights. The funeral service and funeral of Doctor Lisa will be held in the circle of family and friends.
Friends and colleagues remember Elizaveta Glinka with warmth. “In a difficult situation, Lisa always knew how to find words, knew how to find time to call, write and support. It’s a shame that she didn’t fully recognize how dear she was to us,” Katerina Gordeeva, trustee of the Gift of Life Foundation, told TASS. Member of the Human Rights Council, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva calls the death of Doctor Lisa a huge loss. “It’s very difficult to talk, this is a huge loss. People like Doctor Lisa are born once every thousand years,” the human rights activist believes.
Elizaveta Glinka, who was flying on board the crashed Tu-154, was transporting medicine to Syria. On December 8, she became the first laureate of the new State Award for outstanding achievements in the field of charitable and human rights activities. Glinka was a member of the Human Rights Council, as well as the head of the Fair Aid charity foundation.
On Monday, farewells are being held in Moscow and the regions for other victims of the disaster. A civil memorial service was held at the Ostankino television center for the journalists of Channel One and NTV who died in the Tu-154 plane crash, RIA Novosti reports. Colleagues came to say goodbye to them, people brought flowers. In the corridor on the walls of the television center, all the photographs and mirrors were curtained with black.
The funeral of the four deceased journalists took place on Monday afternoon at the Federal War Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi, near Moscow, TASS reports. Channel One correspondent Dmitry Runkov will be buried on January 17 with military honors in his homeland in Arkhangelsk, at the Vologda cemetery, a representative of the city administration previously told the agency. The funeral of journalists from the Zvezda TV channel took place on Saturday, January 14.
The Tu-154 plane crash killed crews from Channel One, NTV and the Zvezda TV channel. Nine journalists became victims of the crash: correspondent Dmitry Runkov (Channel One), cameraman Vadim Denisov (Channel One), sound engineer Alexander Soydov (Channel One), correspondent Pavel Obukhov (Zvezda), cameraman Alexander Suranov (Zvezda), assistant cameraman Valery Rzhevsky (Zvezda), correspondent-producer Mikhail Luzhetsky (NTV), cameraman Oleg Pestov (NTV), sound engineer Evgeny Tolstov (NTV).
48 victims of the disaster were buried at the military cemetery in Mytishchi
In total, 48 victims of the Tu-154 crash were buried at the military cemetery in Mytishchi. In addition to four journalists, crew members of the crashed aircraft, military personnel, artists of the Alexandrov ensemble, as well as the head of the cultural department of the Russian Ministry of Defense Anton Gubankov were buried there. At the end of last year, assistant director of the department Oksana Badrutdinova, who also died in a plane crash, was buried here.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, members of the government and the Federation Council, State Duma deputies, relatives, friends and colleagues came to say goodbye to the dead. Secretary of State - Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov assured the relatives of the victims of the plane crash of full support from the military department.
Artistic director of the ensemble Alexandrov will be buried in the Vladimir region
Artistic director of the ensemble named after. Alexandrov Valery Khalilov, who was also on board the Tu-154 that crashed into the sea, will be buried on January 16 at the Arkhangelsk churchyard in the Kirzhach district of the Vladimir region, where the conductor’s great-grandmother rests. Local historian Evgeny Fedorov, one of the ceremony organizers, told TASS about this. “Due to weather conditions, the funeral of Valery Khalilov was postponed from Sunday to Monday, January 16. The ceremony will be attended by musicians of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who will perform funeral music,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
According to him, the general bequeathed to be buried in the Arkhangelsk churchyard near the village of Novinki, where his great-grandmother was buried. At the entrance to the village where he lived as a child, Khalilov built a column chapel at his own expense.
It was expected that more than 300 military personnel, representatives of the Ministry of Defense, cultural figures, the leadership of the Vladimir region and local residents would take part in the funeral of the artistic director of the Alexandrov ensemble. The funeral cortege was scheduled to arrive at the Arkhangelsk churchyard at 13:00 Moscow time.
On Saturday evening, the coffin with the conductor’s body was brought to the Sorrowful Convent in the village of Khmelevo, located a few kilometers from the burial site. From early Sunday morning people began to come to the monastery. Throughout the day, Valery Khalilov’s wife, daughter, brother and sister were next to the coffin.
Khalilov's funeral service took place on Saturday in Moscow, at the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhov. The service was conducted by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, with whom the People's Artist of Russia had friendly relations and joint creative work. Then friends, colleagues, colleagues and fans said goodbye to the conductor in the ensemble’s concert hall in the capital.
Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov (1952-2016) - People's Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, Lieutenant General. Born into the family of a military conductor, he graduated from the Moscow Military Music School (today the Moscow Military Music School) and the military conducting department at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky.
From 2002 to 2016, Khalilov was the head of the military orchestra service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the main military conductor. In April 2016, by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, he was appointed to the position of artistic director of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A. V. Alexandrov.
Valery Khalilov led the international military music festivals "Spasskaya Tower" (Moscow), "Amur Waves" (Khabarovsk), "March of the Century" (Tambov) and the International Military Music Festival in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
The 18 people killed in the plane crash have yet to be identified.
Currently, 18 people killed in the Tu-154 crash, including two crew members, are still not identified, sources in the forensic medical examination bureau told TASS. A total of 92 people died as a result of the plane crash.
Of the more than 70 identified victims of the plane crash, 12 will be buried in the regions, 50 at the Federal Memorial Military Cemetery in Mytishchi near Moscow, more than 10 in Moscow and the Moscow region, the agency’s interlocutors said. Last week it became known that relatives of the victims of the disaster had a conflict with the Ministry of Defense due to the fact that the military department opposed holding a full funeral service.
A Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense crashed in the Black Sea on December 25, two minutes after takeoff from Adler airport. On board were 92 people - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight military personnel, 64 employees of the Alexandrov Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army, the head of the Fair Aid charity foundation Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, two federal civil servants and nine employees of Russian TV channels. They were heading to the Khmeimim airbase in Syria to wish Happy New Year to the Russian Aerospace Forces air group.
The wreckage of the plane was found a few hours later, 1.5 km from the coast in the Sochi region at a depth of 50-70 m. No traces of an explosion or fire were found on them, but at the same time did not exclude the possibility of the crash as a result of a terrorist attack by mechanical force.
A Kommersant source close to the investigation reported on January 12 that experts did not find confirmation of an explosion on board the Tu-154 or shelling of the aircraft from the ground. Thus, the investigation excluded the version of a terrorist attack from the list of possible causes of the disaster.
// Photo: Ilya Pitalev / RIA Novosti
On Monday, January 16, the whole country says goodbye to the victims of the terrible Tu-154 plane crash that crashed over the Black Sea on December 25, 2016.
Many people who are not indifferent to the activities of the head of the Fair Aid Foundation, Doctor Lisa, gathered at the Assumption Church of the Novodevichy Convent. Among them were State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, Member of the Public Chamber Vadim Kovalev and President of the Vera Charitable Foundation Nyuta Federmesser. They began to say goodbye to Elizaveta Glinka at eight o’clock in the morning. Those who could not come to the ceremony in person asked their friends to lay flowers for them. Among them were residents of other cities, shocked by her tragic death.
“It is very important that her work continues. This is perhaps the most important thing. And I have no doubt that someday she will be canonized. Not now, this is also important, but someday it is necessary,” said Mikhail Fedotov.
The speech of the head of the Human Rights Council was supported by Nyuta Federmesser. “People really lack correct examples, they lack guidelines. But you can’t say about Lisa now that she’s a saint; if you do that, it means she’s an ideal, which means none of us can live like she lived,” said the president of the charity organization.
Federmesser also shared her memories of the deceased: “She could and loved to look beautiful, she could swear well, she loved life and the good things in it. But, yes, she still couldn’t get past the injustice, past the ulcer on the leg of a homeless person.”
There were a lot of red roses at the ceremony. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill sent white flowers. At the funeral headboard they placed carnations in a tricolor ribbon - a wreath from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Doctor Lisa and I collaborated for two years, helping in her noble cause. This is a huge grief for our entire team, for all the sick, homeless and beggars whom she fed in Moscow. We remembered her as a holy woman, a kind-hearted person, who was ready to come to the aid of absolutely any person in trouble,” said the commander of the search and rescue team, Evgeniy Serykh.
Valentina Matvienko also came to say goodbye to Doctor Lisa. She laid flowers on the coffin, stood near it for a minute, and then went up to Glinka’s relatives and expressed condolences to them, shaking hands.
The funeral of Elizaveta Glinka will take place later at the Novodevichy cemetery. They will be held in a narrow circle of relatives and friends of the plane crash victim.
Meanwhile, at Ostankino there was a farewell ceremony for the journalists of Channel One, NTV and Zvezda, who were flying to the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. The ceremony was attended by relatives and colleagues of the victims, including Konstantin Ernst, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Alexey Volin, General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev and journalist Alexey Pimanov. The General Director of Channel One asked for forgiveness from the families of the disaster victims.
“On December 25, a terrible tragedy happened - our comrades died. On Channel One, Dima Runkov, Vadim Denisov, and Sasha Soydov died. The guys from NTV and the guys from Zvezda died. The world famous Alexandrov choir, Doctor Lisa, and the pilots died. Terrible grief. What to say to family and friends... Sorry for not saving you. We promise that we will help you,” said Konstantin Ernst.
// Photo: Alexey Kudenko / RIA Novosti
The head of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding, Alexey Pimanov, and the general director of NTV, Alexey Zemsky, joined the words of their colleague. According to Pimanov, today they are saying goodbye to the best representatives of the profession. “There is one journalism, another, they could find another job, they probably could not fly where they always flew,” he commented.
General Director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev called the day of farewell to the victims the worst in the history of Russian television. “We have never had such losses. What happened is terrible, especially if you look at these faces,” he noted, emphasizing the youth of his colleagues who passed away. Dobrodeev also said that he would do everything for the memory of the guys and their loved ones.
Farewell to those who died in the Tu-154 crash also took place at the Federal Military Cemetery in the Moscow Region. Their loved ones, relatives and colleagues, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the leadership of the department, came to say the latter as if they had died. In addition, the ceremony was attended by the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Yuri Vorobyov and deputies of the State Duma.
“They left on the rise, they left in the prime of their lives. They were flying on a combat mission. We apologize for not saving the lives of our colleagues... Eternal memory to those who died,” said Secretary of State and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov.
// Photo: Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti
In Moscow, the remains of the head of the Fair Aid Foundation, Elizaveta Glinka (Doctor Lisa), who died in the Tu-154 crash in the Black Sea on December 25, have been identified. Glinka's funeral will take place on January 16 at the Novodevichy cemetery. After the Russian plane crash, Glinka’s close friend, founder of the Galchonok charity foundation, Olga Zhuravskaya, began sharing memories of Dr. Lisa on her Facebook. Rain, with the permission of the author, publishes her witty and touching sketches from Glinka’s life.
“Here is a text below, written poorly, but sincerely. The text is old and terrible. I didn’t change or edit anything about it. In a nutshell, this is a text about how I came to Lisa in 2006 and was completely blown away by the fact that hospice was cool. Lord, I even remember that parrot that was screaming obscenities. I can’t say goodbye to you yet, you understand me too.
The first thing I saw was a young, impeccably dressed woman. Have you seen her photos on LiveJournal? Forget it. They don't convey even half the charm.
Lisa has very refined taste and, forgive her, a luxurious apartment. The walls are aquamarine, Lisa, I’ve never seen so much light green light and color, or is it just like that in my memory? Huge, absolutely St. Petersburg windows and ceilings. A tree climbed right into the balcony with all its branches - I understand it, I want to be closer to Lisa.
“Here’s my child,” Lisa says in a whisper and opens the door. There, buried under the blankets, Lizino’s treasure was buried and sleeping, interested in the issues of returning hot water and unwilling to ever, ever get a haircut.
It’s light in Lisa’s hospice. It's bright and hectic. Nurses and doctors are walking around, phones are ringing. “This,” Lisa shows me, “is the kitchen.” The refrigerator, the prose of life, is full of food. “I explained for so long that everything can be taken without permission, but they still aren’t used to it,” she laments. “This,” we move on, “is a bar.” Yes, yes, bottles of good and expensive alcohol.
The Hospice is sterilely clean and smells of cookies. This is because Lisa has first-class care, clean showers, a floor that is washed three times a day, and God knows how much more is done - I can’t imagine.
“Our parrot Petrovich is a fool,” Natasha (Glinka’s assistant. - Rain) says thoughtfully, “And he bites.” But we give it to those patients who feel completely alone.”
“You don’t want to quarrel with me,” Lisa says on the phone, “We have a boy in Moscow who needs money. Yes, the damned Muscovites have our boy, whom they provided with everything he needed, but now he needs money. Can you hear? I am surprised to note the iron notes in Lisa’s soft voice. And, just a second later - great - Lisa chirps, - that would be right away! When is the next revolution there?“.
I ask you to go through the wards. “Just,” Lisa manages to warn, “don’t tell them I’m leaving.” They are terribly worried, and the howl is unbearable.” It's good that she managed to warn. “Isn’t Lizavetochka Petrovna going anywhere?” asks Tatyana, Tanya’s grandmother. “No, he’s not leaving, why would he?” “Sit down with me, dear,” he says, “What’s your name?” “Olechka,” I answer, adopting a diminutive manner. “Well, sit down, Ninochka, let’s talk about God.”
Later, together with Lisa, we go to the priest. Lisa convinces him to eat, convinces him that he can do whatever he wants. “In general,” Lisa gets into a rage, “what do you want, say anything!?” “Well, what could a man want?” the priest answers modestly looking at us. “A woman,” Lisa happily guesses. And at this moment I’m thinking exactly the same thing, but I don’t have time to say it out loud. “Shashlik,” the priest answers, confused. “I’ll bring it tomorrow, tomorrow,” Lisa promises. When we leave the room we look at him and can’t hold back our laughter.
Children's room in a hospice - fear and pain. Bed, sofa, toys, air conditioning. I don’t want to talk about it, but Liza’s main joy is that the room is empty.
Elizaveta Glinka and Olga Zhuravskaya / photo: Olga Zhuravskaya’s Facebook page
Later, while sitting in a restaurant, the phone rings, after which Lisa begins to jump. Klitschko (I don’t remember which one) will come to a boy who dreams about this so much, this boy, he has no mother at all. But this is confidential, otherwise journalists will come running. But can I write to LiveJournal later? Of course it is possible. What happened to the boy, I ask cautiously. Explains. The diagnosis is serious, but not fatal. Lisa helps everyone.
Liza’s assistant Natasha, bright and beautiful, instantly organizes a meeting because she understands Liza’s contacts faster than the latter.
I gave Lisa a bouquet from myself and from Olya T. These flowers were placed in vases throughout the wards. How beautiful, grandmother Tanya rejoiced. And Lisa brought the shish kebab.”
“Lisa also very funny read negative comments out loud to us: “We need to drive this rubbish to the neck, stop fattening on our deeeeeens,” she drawled nasally. Then she added: “By the way, we should drive you all out of our luxurious mansion.”
Around this moment, the lights went out in the basement on Pyatnitskaya once again, and we all wet ourselves a little out of fear. There was a pause. “This, apparently, darkness has fallen on Glinka, who is hated by the procurator,” Lisa summed up the evening.”
(It seems to me or am I ruining my reputation as a saint?)
photo: Olga Zhuravskaya’s Facebook page
“Liza loved everyone to lie in the coffin in full dress, and therefore she buried the Kyiv hospice guests in her husband’s costumes, secretly from, in fact, her husband. Naturally, Gleb gloomily and not without surprise walked around his own closet, not understanding why a typical female problem had arisen in his life: having nothing to wear.”
“So you say - share your memories. A couple of days ago, with the light hand of the wonderful Natasha, I got to the point of talking about Lisa with the BBC. There at the end the announcer, in his sexy British English, asked if I had a nickname that Lisa gave me. I figured out how to translate “Red-haired ******* (prostitute)” into English, and dryly replied that “out of grief I can’t talk about it yet.”
“I was writing a text about Lisa (nothing came of it), I remembered a little thing. Liza and I were sitting somewhere in the center of Moscow, drinking wine, gossiping, well, the usual. “In short,” I said, looking up from the phone, “now this one is coming to us, I’m worried.”
As soon as this one appeared, Lisa rustled instead of “hello”: “Do you even understand what treasure you got?” Yes, our redhead read Shakespeare in the original!“.
Of course, I didn’t read any Shakespeare in the original, but Lisa knew how to sell stale goods without batting an eyelid.”
“I once asked Lisa what she would do if it weren’t for palliative care, and she answered that she would study the female orgasm. Seeing my bulging eyes, she explained: what, it’s such a disastrous thing.”
““Write about my sweater... The same pink one that was too big.” “Don’t worry!” said Lisa, “I’ll sew up his throat, the three of us homeless people will live in it like in a tent!”
Photo: Irina Cherkasova / Facebook
“I called Lisa and yelled: “Save me, if anything happens, I’m at your house!” “For God’s sake,” Lisa agrees, “but I’m not there, so if anything happens, you’re there with my husband!”
“One day I flew into the basement and yelled from the threshold: “Lisa, I’ve never been to a mammologist, feel my breasts urgently!”
“Let Petrovich [the doctor who worked with Glinka. “The rain] is feeling,” Lisa yawned from under the papers, “for at least some kind of entertainment for him.”
“God forbid,” I balked, “he’s a man, I’m embarrassed!”
“Actually, I’m a doctor,” Petrovich was indignant.
“Then with your eyes closed,” I begged.
“I’m crazy,” said Petrovich.
“Ask him to take off his glasses,” Lisa said cheerfully.
“Lisa, where is Petrovich?” someone shouted from the entrance.
“He’s pawing the redhead behind a box of clothes for the homeless,” the doctor readily explained.
