Natalia died Gorbanevskaya

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The poet , translator , human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya died in Paris on the night of November 29 at the age of 77 .

Natalia E. Gorbanevskaya was born in 1936 in Moscow, graduated from Leningrad University, " philologist, teacher of Russian language and literature of high school ." Worked in Moscow as a librarian , bibliographer , technical and scientific translator. Was initiated , author, editor and typist of the first issue of the samizdat bulletin " Chronicle of Current Events ."

Demonstrator August 25, 1968 against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia . Arrested on 24 December 1969 . In April 1970, the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry named VP Serbian Natalia Gorbanevskaya was diagnosed with " sluggish schizophrenia " and then sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital is a prison , which contained up to February 1972 .

In 1971 he published an essay Gorbanevskaya " Medicare ", written in March 1968 and dedicated to the abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union , in the book " madness put to death ."

December 17, 1975 emigrated . Lived in Paris , worked in the magazine "Continent" was a freelancer radio "Freedom" from the beginning of the 1980s and until 2003 worked in the newspaper " Russian idea ." Since 1999 was amended and the editorial board of the Russian-speaking Warsaw magazine " New Poland ", published it as a writer and as a translator .

Copyright half dozen books of poetry , a translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak and French . Winner of the international literary contest " Russian Award " for 2010 in the category " Poetry ».

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It was in the autumn on our envelopes , and while she went out to smoke, I told the young with whom they sit at the same table , and they looked at her huge eyes disbelieving . I told them about a hero who went out unarmed against monsters and giants of the knight , and in front of them sat a small , frail , elderly woman.

Evil does not always look like a fairytale dragon , and good - not always as a knight in shining armor , but essentially it does not change .

They say she died in her sleep . Well, if so. This is a good death. And it was a wonderful life .

Thank you, Natalia E. .

If anyone knows of the young , about whom we are -

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Natalia Gorbanevskaya devoted to Joan Baez song " Natalia ".