1. Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.
15 Facts About Irina Ratushinskaya
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Irina Ratushinskaya was born in Odesa, Ukraine on 4 March 1954.
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Irina Ratushinskaya's father, Boris Leonidovich Ratushinsky, was an engineer; her mother, Irina Valentinovna Ratushinskaya, was a teacher of Russian literature.
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On 17 September 1982 Irina Ratushinskaya was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet agitation for writing and circulating her collections of verse.
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Irina Ratushinskaya received the maximum sentence of seven years in a strict-regime labor camp, followed by five years of internal exile.
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Irina Ratushinskaya was a member of International PEN, who monitored her situation during her incarceration.
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In 1987, Irina Ratushinskaya moved to the United States, where she received the Religious Freedom Award of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.
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Irina Ratushinskaya was Poet-in-Residence at Northwestern University in Illinois from 1987 to 1989.
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In Russia Irina Ratushinskaya continued to write, including least scripts for sitcoms, and give occasional poetry readings.
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Irina Ratushinskaya died in Moscow on 5 July 2017 from cancer.
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Irina Ratushinskaya was survived by her husband, human rights activist Igor Gerashchenko, and their two sons.
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Irina Ratushinskaya's life has had a long-lasting impact on many throughout the world, serving as a source of spiritual inspiration.
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Irina Ratushinskaya's books have been translated into English, German, French, Japanese and other languages and published in many countries.
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Meanwhile, the 7-lesson English course Irina Ratushinskaya wrote has been enhanced by her son Oleg and turned into a broad range of courses for children, teens, students and adults.
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Irina Ratushinskaya died of cancer before she could finish her last novel, Azor's paw.