"I Am Always on the Side of the Weak". Diaries, Conversations

This audiobook is the voice of Elizaveta Glinka herself.

Uninvented stories of dozens of people who have been left without hope for the future.

Elizaveta Glinka (1962–2016), known as Doctor Lisa, was a doctor-resuscitator, a specialist in palliative care. She founded the first hospice in Kyiv, oversaw hospice work in cities across Russia, and in Serbia and Armenia; she created an international public organization “Just Help”; she treated, fed, and provided for the homeless; she organized the evacuation of sick and injured children from Donbas.

Tragically, she died in an airplane crash over the Black Sea on December 25, 2016, while escorting a shipment of medicines and equipment for a hospital in Syria.

The book is based on Doctor Lisa’s diaries; the second part consists of conversations with Elizaveta Glinka, in which she speaks at length about “Just Help,” about her wards, and—very little—about herself. The book also includes a memoir essay by Gleb Glinka and a foreword by Ksenia Sokolova.