Shchipkova Tatyana Nikolaevna

Genus. in 1930 in the city of Rubtsovsk, Altai Territory. In the same year, she moved to Leningrad with her parents. In 1953 she graduated from Leningrad University, majoring in Romance philology. By assignment she worked as a teacher of French and Russian in a Moldavian rural school. In 1958 she entered graduate school at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​of the Russian Academy of Sciences, after which she was invited to teach at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute. She taught Latin and gave courses on theoretical grammar and the history of the French language. She defended her PhD thesis on the history of the Old Romanian language. Since 1974, she took part in the work of the Christian seminar in Moscow, as well as in the preparation of issues and production of circulation of the samizdat Orthodox magazine "Community". In May 1978, a search was carried out at Shch’s apartment in Smolensk, and 7 copies were seized. new issue of the magazine. In the summer of 1978, the KGB was warned about liability under Art. 190-1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. In 1979, she was fired from her job and deprived of her academic degree. In 1979, a criminal case was framed on charges of deliberately beating a vigilante. Sentenced by the Leninsky District Court of Moscow on January 6, 1980 under Art. 206 part II (“pre-planned malicious hooliganism”) to 3 years in labor camp. She was kept in the Ussuriysk correctional colony No. 267/10. After her release in 1983, she received a ban on residence in Leningrad. She lived illegally for more than a year, then, with the help of priests she knew, she found a place to live in one of the villages in the Pskov region. From 1991 to 2007 she taught at a humanities school. She died in 2009 in Moscow and was buried in Tarusa. Author of the book "A Woman's Portrait in a Prison Interior" (posthumous edition: M., 2011). 07/15/2012 in Smolensk, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of Smolensk State University.