Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist

Date of Birth: 26-May-1936

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 29-Nov-2013

Profession: writer, poet, librarian, translator, human rights activist, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ???????´?????, IPA: [n?'tal?j? j?v'g?en?j?vn? g?rb?'n??fsk?j?] (listen); 26 May 1936, Moscow – 29 November 2013, Paris) 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.