Irina Ratushinskaya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Irina Ratushinskaya
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 4, 1954(1954-03-04)
Age	70
Date Of Death	July 5, 2017, Moscow, Russia
Birthplace	Odessa
Country	Soviet Union
Horoscope	Aries

Irina Ratushinskaya Biography

Irina Ratushinskaya is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 4, 1954 in Odessa, Soviet Union. Irina Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine on 4 March 1954. Her father, Boris Leonidovich Ratushinsky, was an engineer; her mother, Irina Valentinovna Ratushinskaya, was a teacher of Russian literature. Irina had one sister. Her mother’s family originated from Poland: her maternal great-grandfather was deported from Poland to Siberia, shortly after the January 1863 Uprising against forced conscription into the Russian Imperial Army.

Between 1 and 3 March 1983, she was tried in Kiev and convicted of “agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening the Soviet regime” (Article 62). Ratushinskaya received the maximum sentence of seven years in a strict-regime labor camp, followed by five years of internal exile. After being imprisoned three and a half years, including one year in solitary confinement in an unheated cell while temperatures fell to minus 40C in the winter, she was released on 9 October 1986, on the eve of the summit in Reykjavík, Iceland between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Not all of Irina’s works got to be published. In 1996 the family set off for a vacation in Greece together with their two sons (aged 4 at the time), family friends and their two children (aged 6 and 8). The mothers took turns looking after all 4 children, and Irina’s way of keeping all of them somewhat disciplined and entertained was manifested in a series of stories she invented about the adventures of a naughty girl called Cinderella, who wore shoes size 45 and enjoyed robbing banks together with the naughty prince of Bencionia, and giving a headache to the strict King Bencione. The series was loved by all four of the children who, eager to hear what was to happen next, were glad to do as they were told. Eventually, the storytelling was attended by the other 3 parents, who loved the series, particularly after hearing of Cinderella and the prince’s vacation in Cuba, where they shaved Fidel Castro bald in his sleep. The series were told but never written down by Irina. A play ‘Борцу не больно’ (the wrestler does not hurt) was written in 2 parts for a film on sambo, however, it was not used in the film, apart from some of the character’s names. Irina died of cancer before she could finish her last novel, Azor’s paw. The 13 written chapters are kept by her family, the first chapter being translated to English by her son Oleg at Irina’s final request for him.

Ratushinskaya died in Moscow on 5 July 2017 from cancer. She was survived by her husband, human rights activist Igor Gerashchenko, and their two sons. Memorial events were held for Irina in Moscow and other cities of Russia, including in Chelyabinsk in August 2019. A request was sent by Oleg to Google to dispel the false claims of kidney cancer as the cause of death. Though the cause of death was, indeed, cancer, the details are not to be published and speculation behalf people who were not present to support Irina during her final days was considered inappropriate by her sons.

On 17 September 1982 Ratushinskaya was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet agitation for writing and circulating her collections of verse.

Irina Ratushinskaya Net Worth

Irina Ratushinskaya is one of the richest Writer from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irina Ratushinskaya 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (Russian: Ири́на Бори́совна Ратуши́нская , 4 March 1954, Odessa – 5 July 2017, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

Ratushinskaya was educated at Odessa University and graduated with a master’s degree in physics in 1976. Before and after her graduation she taught from 1975 to 1978 at a primary school in her native Odessa.

In 1987 Ratushinskaya moved to the United States, where she received the Religious Freedom Award of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. In the same year the Politburo deprived both Irina and her husband of their Soviet citizenship. She was Poet-in-Residence at Northwestern University in Illinois (USA) from 1987 to 1989. For the next ten years Ratushinskaya lived in London, UK, until December 1998, when the family returned to Russia to educate their seven-year-old twins in Russian schools. Irina and her husband Igor had spent one year undergoing various procedures to regain their Russian citizenship, including letters and appeals to President Boris Yeltsin.

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Irina Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Irina Ratushinskaya celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.