Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Russian poet and translator
Died when: 77 years 187 days (930 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ???????´?????, IPA: [n?'tal?j? j?v'g?en?j?vn? g?rb?'n?efsk?j?]; 26 May 1936 – 29 November 2013) was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist.
She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982).On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.She was released from the Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital in 1972, and emigrated from the USSR in 1975, settling in France.
In 2005, she became a citizen of Poland.
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