Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская) (born 1936) is a Russian poet and civil rights activist.

She graduated from Leningrad University in 1964 and became a technical editor and translator. Only nine of her poems have been published in official journals, the remainder being privately circulated or published abroad.

Gorbanyevskaya was one of seven protesters to demonstrate in Red Square on 5 August 1968 against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (see 1968 Red Square demonstration). Having recently given birth she was not tried with the other demonstrators. Instead, she was imprisoned in a Soviet psychiatric prison in 1969 for three years. She wrote an account of the trial, Noon, published abroad as Red Square at Noon.

One of the Joan Baez's songs, called "Natalia", released on a live album "From Every Stage" (1976), is dedicated to Natalia Gorbaneyvskaya. Introducing the song at the concert, Joan Baez would say about Natalia's imprisonment in the psychiatric hospital.

In 2005 Gorbanevskaya participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.

Books
Gorbanevskaya, Natalya, Poems, Carcanet Press, 1972, ISBN 0-85635-002-8

links in English

 * http://www.arlindo-correia.com/060804.html Poems, with translations into english
 * http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554(197612)70%3A4%3C1335%3ARSAN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F Red Square at Noon by Harrison E. Harrison, Natalia Gorbanevskaya. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Dec., 1976), pp. 1335-1336 doi:10.2307/1959448

links in Russian

 * http://www.goldref.ru/biography/Gorbanevskaja_N.E./1/ Биография
 * http://www.hro.org/editions/karta/nr21/demonstr.htm Наталья Горбаневская. Что помню я о демонстрации
 * http://www.memo.ru/history/DISS/chr/chr3.htm Информация о демонстрации в бюллетене «Хроника текущих событий»
 * http://www.memo.ru/history/DISS/chr/chr4.htm Информация о суде над демонстрантами в бюллетене «Хроника текущих событий»
 * http://www.yale.edu/annals/sakharov/documents_frames/Sakharov_008.htm; Письмо Андропова в ЦК про демонстрацию (windows encoding)

Горбаневская, Наталья Евгеньевна