Tolokonnikova's daughter. What are the members of Pussy Riot doing now?

Nadezhda Andreevna Tolokonnikova. She was born on November 7, 1989 in Norilsk. Russian musician, singer, member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, founder of the organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners "Zone of Rights" and the Internet media "Mediazona", a former member of the art group "Voina".

Father - Andrey Tolokonnikov, a doctor by profession, worked as an emergency doctor in Norilsk, later became a businessman.

Mother - Ekaterina Voronina, worked as a teacher at a music school.

The name for the daughter was chosen by the father, as he himself explained, he wanted the girl to become "The Hope of Dr. Tolokonnikov."

Nadezhda's parents broke up when she was 4 years old. Father went to Moscow, went into business. But her mother did not want to move to the capital. Nadia stayed with her mother, but she maintained relations with her father, often visiting him in Moscow. As Andrey Tolokonnikov said, from an early age he prepared his daughter for admission to Moscow State University, took him to Sparrow Hills.

As a teenager, she became interested in philosophy and history.

A great influence on the formation of the character of Nadezhda was made by her paternal grandmother, Vera Ivanovna, who lives in Krasnoyarsk. Nadya's grandmother, according to the stories of people who know her, is a very principled and honest person, a convinced communist, and for the idea she was ready to go "into fire and into water." Nadia always said that she wanted to be like Vera Ivanovna. Revolutionary ideas, impulses and desires to reshape the world in a fair way - this is from Nadezhda from her grandmother.

From an early age, Nadezhda herself was distinguished by an expressive character and a peculiar look at the events surrounding her, she was freedom-loving and wayward, and did not want to obey.

As a child, she studied piano at a music school. In high school, she took part in cultural events organized in the city by the publishing house "New Literary Review" by Irina Prokhorova.

In Norilsk, she graduated from high school with a gold medal.

In 2007 she moved to Moscow and entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

While studying at Moscow State University, she began to take an active part in various events organized by art group "War". Being in her fifth month of pregnancy in 2008, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova took part in a scandalous sexual orgy that took place at the Biological Museum. K.A. Timiryazev. This action was timed to coincide with the presidential elections in Russia and, according to the organizers of this action, was supposed to become a kind of sarcastic parody of what is happening in the country.

After this action, the girl was even going to be expelled from Moscow State University, but they gave her the opportunity to finish her studies.

In 2010, the performance "Cockroach Court" became a high-profile action with her participation.

Also in the summer of 2010, Tolokonnikova took part in actions to protect the Khimki forest.

Since March 2011 - member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot. The members of the group, explaining the name, noted that they combined the vulgar overtones of the English "pussy" and the rude, aggressive "riot". The idea of ​​creating an art project arose as a result of a discussion between artists on the theme of the punk-feminist movement Riot Grrrl. The official date of birth of the team is November 7, 2011 - the day the first video clip was published on the network.

The basis of the art project is made up of female artists, as well as actresses, journalists, poetesses, representatives of other professions. The project does not provide for a permanent staff. The participants of the movement act under pseudonyms, some of them are known: “Balaklava”, “Squirrel” (“Squirrel”), “Blondie”, “Vozhzha”, “Sparrow” (“Sparrow”), “Garadzha” (“Garadzha Matveyeva”) , "Cat", "Manko", "Chowder", "Seraphim", "Terminator", "Tyurya", "Puck", "Hat", "Schumacher".

On May 28, 2011, the day when the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of the Border Guard, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova participated in a gay pride in defense of the civil rights of the LGBT community near the Alexander Garden and on Tverskaya Square near the Moscow City Hall, unauthorized by the Moscow City Hall.

Tolokonnikova participated in the Anti-Seliger Civil Forum in the Khimki Forest from 17 to 20 June 2011.

On December 10, 2011, Tolokonnikova spoke from the stage of the rally on Bolotnaya Square as a representative of the feminist and LGBT community. The activist urged "everyone to become a political leader and think for themselves."

In October 2011, Pussy Riot released the song "Free the pavement"- so began the first illegal tour of the group. The song was dedicated to the elections to the State Duma on December 4, 2011 and contained the words "Egyptian air is good for the lungs // Make Tahrir on Red Square // Spend a wild day among strong women // Look for scrap on the balcony, free the paving stones", anticipating the December rallies in Moscow".

On December 14, 2011, on the roof of special detention center No. 1 in Moscow, where protesters were kept during the December 5 rally against the results of the elections to the State Duma (including politicians Ilya Yashin and Alexei Navalny), Pussy Riot sang a song "Death to prison, freedom to protest". The song contains the lyrics: "Direct action is the future of humanity // LGBT, feminists, defend the fatherland // Death to prison, freedom to protest!".

On January 20, 2012, the song was performed on Red Square "Putin pissed"("Riot in Russia - Putin pissed"). The group sang the song at the Execution Ground. It was the largest action in terms of the number of participants: eight young women climbed the Lobnoye Mesto. Later, they were all detained by the Federal Security Service, two participants were subjected to an administrative fine.

Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the criminal term of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

On February 21, 2012, together with four other members of Pussy Riot, she performed an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which the group called "Punk Prayer" - "Our Lady of the Virgin, drive Putin away!". The action was recorded on video, the distribution of which on the Internet led to the initiation of a criminal case.

On March 3, 2012, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on charges of hooliganism in connection with an action (which the group calls a "punk prayer") in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and on March 16, Yekaterina Samutsevich. The arrested women initially denied their participation in the Pussy Riot group and stated that they did not participate in the action in the temple, however, in the debate at the court, the defendants did not deny this.

On August 17, 2012, the court found Tolokonnikova guilty of “gross violation of public order, expressing clear disrespect for society, committed on the basis of religious hatred and enmity” and sentenced to two years in prison in a general regime colony.

During the debate and in the last word, the participants insisted that they did not intend to offend the feelings of believers, and that their actions were caused solely by political considerations.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova did not admit her guilt either at the trial or later, stating that the action in the church was pro-religious, not anti-religious.

All those arrested were charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced under the article “Hooliganism” (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to two years in prison in a general regime colony. The guilty verdict was an unprecedented Russian event in recent years, which received an unprecedented public outcry both within the country and around the world.

On October 10, 2012, the Moscow City Court left the sentence of Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina unchanged, and Samutsevich replaced the sentence with a suspended sentence and released her in the courtroom, due to the fact that she practically did not participate in the “punk prayer” itself, since she was detained by guards on the salt immediately after the start of the action.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International declared all of them prisoners of conscience.

In August 2012, art critic Irina Kulik nominated Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich for the Kandinsky Prize in the Project of the Year nomination for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In the long list of the award, which, according to the results of voting by experts, included 21 works, the Pussy Riot action did not get in, gaining a small number of points.

In 2012, Foreign Policy magazine included Tolokonnikova, along with Ekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina, among the 100 leading intellectuals in the world.

In 2012, in the Russian version of MAXIM magazine, Tolokonnikova took 18th place in the list of 100 sexiest women in Russia.

In the fall of 2012, John Lennon's widow announced that she was awarding members of the punk band Pussy Riot the LennonOno Peace Prize. This prize is awarded every two years to "fighters for peace and justice". The award was received by the daughter of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 4-year-old (at that time) Gera.

In December 2012, the French newspaper Le Figaro named Tolokonnikova "Woman of the Year". In the ranking of twenty people, Tolokonnikova was ahead of Michelle Obama, who took second place, and Meryl Streep took third place.

In March 2013, she took 72nd place in the list of "100 most influential women in Russia", compiled annually by the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

In September and October 2013, Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike twice. Through a common-law husband, she handed over an open letter in which she spoke about the unbearable working and living conditions in correctional colony No. 14 in Mordovia. In the letter, the convict, in particular, spoke about a 16-17 hour working day in a sewing workshop, about a monthly salary of 29 rubles. Tolokonnikova also indicated that a crime had been committed against her - the deputy head of the colony Kupriyanov threatened her with murder and physical violence.

On October 1, 2013, the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Mordovia reported that Tolokonnikova ended her nine-day hunger strike after promising to transfer her to another colony. In mid-November, Tolokonnikova was sent to the hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Krasnoyarsk Territory due to a complication of her health after a hunger strike, where she remained until the end of her term.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was released on December 23, 2013 under an amnesty, adopted by the State Duma on the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution, as convicted under the article "Hooliganism". At the same time, Maria Alyokhina was released. They called this step of the State Duma "a demonstrative amnesty before the Olympics" (2014 in Sochi).

On January 15, 2014, Pussy Riot was nominated for the NME Awards in the categories Hero of 2013 and Musical Moment of the Year (releasing the members), and was presented in the opposite category Villain of the Year.

In January 2014, Tolokonnikova's photograph was placed on the cover of The Times newspaper.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina announced after the release that they intended to work on protecting the rights of Russian prisoners. “I must provide this assistance. I will do my best to help the prisoners. Now I am connected with the penitentiary system by blood ties, and I will not back down. I will try to make it a little better, ”said Tolokonnikova.

On June 12, 2015, on the Day of Russia, she made an attempt to sew a Russian flag on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, dressed in a prisoner's uniform, after which she was detained by the police.

She made a cameo appearance (in the role of herself) in the 3rd episode of the 3rd season of the American political drama series House of Cards. According to the plot, Tolokonnikova, Verzilov and Alyokhina, during an official dinner in Washington, hosted on the occasion of the visit of the Russian president to the United States, sharply criticize him.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the series "House of Cards"

In February 2016, Pussy Riot's satirical video "Chaika" was released, in which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova appeared as a prosecutor (parodying the Prosecutor General of Russia Yu.Ya. Chaika).

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On March 14, 2016, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova presented her book "Guide to the Revolution" at the international literary festival lit.Cologne in Cologne.

The growth of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: 175 centimeters.

Personal life of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova:

She was married to a civil activist, ex-member of the War group. We met while studying at Moscow State University.

On March 4, 2008, the couple had a daughter, Hera Verzilova. The name of the girl (derived from Gertrud) was chosen by Verzilov. Hera lives with Peter's mother, Elena Vyacheslavovna. They have a nice apartment at the Water Stadium.

In the fall of 2018, it became known that Verzilov had another wife, Veronika Nikulshina.

Filmography of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova:

2015 - House of Cards (season 3) - cameo

Bibliography of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova:

2016 - Revolution Guide

The future political activist was born in the distant and snowy Norilsk. Literally a year after the appearance of their daughter, her parents moved to Krasnoyarsk, but a few years later they returned to Norilsk again. At an early age, the girl was mainly raised by her grandmother, but later her parents also began to take an active part in her daughter's life.

From an early age, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was distinguished by her expressive character and a peculiar look at the events around her. Among the main advantages of our today's heroine, all her acquaintances rank the ability, rare for the modern world, not to be indifferent to the fate of other people and the entire state as a whole. Perhaps it was these qualities that predetermined the entire future fate of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. After graduating from secondary school, the future political activist moved to Moscow, where she soon entered the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Some time later, our today's heroine met a young artist and political activist Pyotr Verzilov. Their political and social views largely coincided, and therefore the two young people very soon found a common language. Together they hitchhiked in Spain and Portugal, and after returning to Russia, they became husband and wife. In 2008, Nadezhda gave birth to her husband's daughter Hera. During this period, the girl was eighteen years old.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova PUSSY RIOT and in politics, recognition

In the late 2000s, our today's heroine began to take an active part in various events organized by the Voina art group. Being in her fifth month of pregnancy, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova took part in a scandalous sexual orgy that took place at the Biological Museum. K.A. Timiryazev. This action was timed to coincide with the presidential elections in Russia and, according to the organizers of this action, was supposed to become a kind of sarcastic parody of what is happening in the country.

After this action, the girl was going to be expelled from Moscow State University, but subsequently the university management changed its mind and still left Tolokonnikova among the students. Subsequently, our today's heroine began to continue to participate in various political actions that took place under the auspices of the Voina art group, as well as other public and political organizations. Thus, one of the most famous protests was the public image of a phallic symbol on the Liteiny Bridge, as well as the so-called “cockroach court”, during which activists of the socio-political organization broke into the building of the Tagansky court and began to scatter cockroaches throughout the hall. The girl herself explained the meaning of such campaigns on her pages on social networks. Thus, soon Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (or, as she often called herself, Nadya Tolokno) became one of the most popular and read bloggers on the Russian segment of the Internet. In addition, the political actions of our today's heroine have been repeatedly awarded various awards both in Russia and Europe. In mid-2011, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova became one of the members of the Pussy Riot art group. In fact, the only significant action of this group was the so-called punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. During this action, a group of girls performed in the church a fragment of their own composition "Mother of God, drive Putin away."

This action was interrupted by representatives of the power structures of Russia. As a result, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and two other members of the Pussy Riot project were detained and brought to trial. The rally in the Moscow church was regarded as hooliganism, committed on the basis of religious hatred. Nadezhda was sentenced to two years in prison and sent to a penal colony. In addition, the court resolution contained allegations that members of the art group suffer from mixed personality disorder. As one of the confirmations of this, the fact was cited that the young daughter of Nadezhda Gera was repeatedly injured due to the actions of her mother, and once even received a linear fracture of the parietal part of the skull.

Political resonance and other facts about Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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The trial of members of the Pussy Riot group was actively covered by representatives of European and Russian media. In defense of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, many well-known show business stars spoke out, insisting, like the detainee herself, that this action was not of a religious, but of a political nature. In particular, such stars as Madonna, Stephen Fry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as many other Russian and Western celebrities performed in support of Nadia Tolokno.

In addition, resolutions in support of the punk prayer participants were adopted by various political and human rights organizations. Thus, the authoritative company Amnesty International recognized Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and other members of the art group as prisoners of conscience.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova now

In 2012, the French edition of Le Figaro named the girl "Woman of the Year". A year later, the Russian radio station "Echo of Moscow" included Tolokonnikova in the list of the hundred most influential women in Russia. A kind of support for the famous member of the Pussy Riot group can also be called the fact that Nadezhda has repeatedly been included in the number of the most desirable and sexy women in Russia (according to Maxim magazine) and the whole world (according to the AskMen.com portal).

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Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are no longer Pussy Riot. From now on, the girls intend to fight for the rights of prisoners, relying on their own prison experience and on the support of Alexei Navalny and other political and public figures. The girls held their first press conference in Moscow after being released under a presidential amnesty.

Ironically, the press conference of Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova was held on the Dozhd TV channel, located literally opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The conference went remarkably smoothly. There were no provocations by Orthodox activists either before or after the meeting between Maria and Nadezhda with journalists, and there was no sharp criticism of the girls either.

Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova went to the journalists with a five-minute delay. It was evident that both were preparing for the meeting and paid a lot of attention to their appearance. Both of their hair was carefully styled.

The first question was asked, which managed to quarrel all the journalists on Facebook over the past couple of days: why didn’t the first thing after the release of Tolokonnikov and Alekhin go to their children, but met in Krasnoyarsk?

“We never covered ourselves with children,” Nadezhda said, adding that it would be dishonest to ask for mercy on this basis. The girls drew attention to the fact that if men were in their place, the issue of children would not be so acute.

Nadezhda and Maria explained that they had met in Krasnoyarsk to discuss their new joint project, Zone of Law (the emphasis on the second word can be placed arbitrarily, Tolokonnikova noted).

The Law Zone project will be funded by crowdfunding and will follow up complaints from prisoners from all regions about conditions of detention, working conditions and violence or threats. The girls noted that Alexei Navalny, coordinator of Rosuznik Sergey Vlasov and Vladimir Rubashny, who worked for 18 years in the Federal Penitentiary Service as the head of the psychological service, will take part in the project, in particular. In addition, they plan to involve public monitoring commissions in the "Zone of Law". At the same time, the girls intend to visit the prisoners themselves. They added that they were worried about the defendants in the Bolotnaya case, who had not yet been released.

“One of the main problems in correctional institutions in Russia is their total closeness and the low degree of communication between the Federal Penitentiary Service and the society,” Alyokhina believes.

From time to time the girls read from the sheet. The question of a German journalist why Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova decided to deal with the problem in prisons, and not other equally important problems in Russia, for example, pay attention to the problem of economic stagnation, caused them bewilderment.

At the request of journalist Natalia Gevorkyan, who asked a question via Skype, the girls listed their core values. Justice, solidarity, humanity - these concepts primarily mean responsibility. As a moral guide, both girls named the writer Vladimir Bukovsky, whose biography was read in the colony.

In general, Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova answered the journalists' questions calmly. One of the journalists just asked: are you girls talking quietly today, are you tired, I guess?

"Can you hear us well? If so, then we don’t need to yell,” Tolokonnikova replied.

Now, as it seems to her, the situation is more harmonious than in the court or in the colonies, where they were not allowed to speak, she explained. Tolokonnikova admitted that she would not perform a punk prayer in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, just as she would not repeat the Sex in the Museum action now: in two years her ideas about life goals have changed.

However, she does not regret what happened. “We are not at the moment,” the girls emphasized.

The action at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum was a "statement on a political topic": they showed how the whole country was "put in cancer and fucked" when Putin appointed an unknown Medvedev as his successor. At the same time, Nadezhda explained why she chose actionism to express her political views. In her opinion, "traditional oppositional political activity is doomed to silence."

“We are called provocateurs. We are really provocateurs. But there is no need to pronounce this word as something obscene.

Art is always a provocation,” she said. The Pussy Riot group did not create a conflict, but only “highlighted” existing problems, Tolokonnikova added.

At the end of the press conference, the girls thanked everyone who supported them in prison. They recalled that they left before the expiration of the sentence, and noted that this was due to public support.

Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were released on December 23 under a presidential amnesty in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution.

Members of the punk band Pussy Riot entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow at the end of February 2012 and, wearing masks, danced in front of the icons. The video of the performance was soon posted online. The police detained three participants - Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, whom the Khamovniki Court of Moscow in August 2012 sentenced to two years in a general regime colony for hooliganism. Samutsevich was given a suspended sentence.

Nadya Tolokno will celebrate her birthday in solitary confinement

November 7th is the birthday of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the most charismatic of the scandalous trinity of the punk band Pussy Riot. This holiday, sentenced to two years in a penal colony for dancing in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, will meet in solitary confinement, in strict isolation, on transit in the outback of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. She will not have any gifts or congratulations. On the eve of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's 24th birthday, her father told MK about her daughter's childhood years, with whom her granddaughter Hera lives and how he sees her mother's future.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

Recall that after the hunger strikes and an open letter about the colonial order and the slave labor of prisoners, Nadezhda .

According to Nadezhda's associates, "Tolokno is being transported through the Siberian stage along the so-called "personal outfit of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia", which is usually issued for terrorists and leaders of organized crime groups." Her transportation has been going on for 17 days. Through their channels, Tolokonnikova's friends found out that the girl had been in the Saransk pre-trial detention center, on a transfer to Tyumen, then a special trailer car with Tolokonnikova was lost in time and space.

Where the convict will serve the remaining term is kept in the strictest confidence. The prison department dismisses journalists: “As soon as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova arrives at the correctional facility, the administration will notify relatives of this within 10 days.”

Apparently, this will be penal colony No. 50 in the taiga village of Nizhny Ingash,. The railway line Krasnoyarsk - Taishet passes through the village, the night train at the Ingashskaya station costs no more than two minutes. Around the timber industry. Attractions: Museum of local lore, Church of Michael the Archangel.

Little is known about IR-50. This is a colony for "first-timers", those who are convicted for the first time are sent there. The zone has a confectionery workshop, a sewing workshop, a cardboard workshop. There is a section of the colony-settlement where convicts plant beets, marrows and potatoes.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will most likely meet her 24th birthday in a barred trailer car on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

On the eve of this date, we talk with her father, Andrei Tolokonnikov:

I worked at that time in Norilsk as an ambulance doctor. We took the patient to the hospital. The roads were covered in snow. In the emergency room, they told me about the birth of my daughter. Nadia is a northern girl. Both her mother and I were born in the Arctic Circle.

- Who gave her the name Hope?

I named my daughter that. She became the "Hope of Dr. Tolokonnikov."

November 7 is a significant date for our country. Day of the October Revolution, the "red day of the calendar" with mandatory demonstrations of workers. Did this date determine the rebellious nature of the daughter?

Grandmother, Vera Ivanovna, played a big role in Nadia's upbringing. My daughter didn't go to kindergarten. Times were tough and we had to work hard. Every year I took the girl to my mother in Krasnoyarsk. Nadya's grandmother is a very principled and honest person, a communist, she was ready to go "into fire and water" for the idea. Nadia always said that she wanted to be like Vera Ivanovna. Revolutionary ideas, impulses, desires to reshape the world in a fair way - this is Nadia's grandmother.

- What events in the life of your daughter were the most memorable? What did they give her, what was she especially happy about?

We broke up with Nadina's mother when her daughter was 4 years old. It was 1994, the country was in reform. Then there were still illusions: Gorbachev's perestroika, liberalization, democracy... I insisted on moving to Moscow, my wife did not want to leave Norilsk for any reason. She worked as a teacher at a music school and insisted that everything suits her. I went to the capital for a better share, decided to do business, I thought later to drag my wife to Moscow, but this did not happen. Five-year-old Nadya stayed with her mother in Norilsk. For the summer she was sent to a camp by the sea. The ex-wife was still quite liberal at that time, she reported where the camp was located. I took a train, went to the coast, then to Anapa, then to Sochi, rented a room in a private house next to the camp. Then I took Nadia to Moscow. We talked a lot with my daughter. As a teenager, she became interested in philosophy and history. By that time she was very attached to me. I prepared Nadya to study at Moscow State University. I taught her to set big goals, to have big dreams, to succeed. Nadia's ambition is natural. At all times there have been such revolutionary-minded women who fanatically served one idea, fought for their rights, and went to prison for their beliefs.

- How did Nadia celebrate her first birthday behind bars?

Nadya was in the Mordovian women's colony IK-14 in the village of Partsa, Zubovo-Polyansky district. She had a lawyer Mark Feigin that day. Nadia is a realistic and pragmatic person, she does not need all these boxes with colored ribbons and popular prints. She looks at it all in parallel. We conveyed our messages to her that day.

Of course, Peter Nadia constantly brought all sorts of goodies, fed her. (- common-law husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University for four years, but completed only two courses. He went on academic leave, in between studies he left to travel around Africa. - Aut.)

During the time spent in prison, Nadia matured. Personality has matured. Now the daughter is already a more mature, more intelligent person. Of course, being in the zone with the killers also affected. Somewhere nearby, on a nearby bunk, a cannibal woman was sitting, who ate her lover, she was imprisoned, in my opinion, for 14 years. There were drug addicts around. Few people understood Nadia in this environment, because people there are of a certain intellectual level.

- ? Who does she live with?

Hera lives with Peter's mother, Elena Vyacheslavovna. They have a nice apartment at the Water Stadium. Nadya set a condition for Petya: I, too, should be involved in the upbringing of Hera. On weekends, I often take Gera, we go wandering around Moscow. Nadia wants her to grow up independent and freedom-loving.

- The granddaughter was named after one of the twelve Olympic deities, the supreme goddess?

It was the initiative of her father - Peter. He was dissuaded from giving the girl such an unusual name, saying: “Why complicate the life of a child?” Then strangers asked again: “Hera is understandable, but what does her real name sound like? Gertrude?" I think that it doesn't matter what your name is, the main thing is what kind of person you are.

- What is Nadezhda's mother doing now? She never supported her daughter in court. Maybe he writes letters to her in the colony?

Our relationship with Nadia's mother deteriorated back in 2000. We haven't spoken in over 10 years. She was not seen in the colony with her daughter.

Nadya is now being transferred to the Krasnoyarsk colony - 50. Was the remote zone, in your opinion, chosen as a punishment for rebellion?

Distance is one thing. The Federal Penitentiary Service apparently believes that the long distance will be a problem for Nadya's support group. But there won't be any problem. There is the Internet, there are close-knit like-minded people, as they could see in the prison department when a cube with posters was placed at their gates on Zhitnaya Street and they began to hold pickets in support of Nadia. But you can still expect surprises from the FSIN. In my opinion, prisoners cannot write letters by e-mail to the penal colony in the village of Nizhny Ingash. Even after the passage of censorship. Their goal was to cut off Nadia from the outside world.

- How much is Nadezhda left before the end of the term?

4 months. In March 2013, she should be released.

- Your mother lives in Krasnoyarsk, who can support her granddaughter.

The colony is located 300 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk. Mom is already an elderly, sick person. But Nadia will undoubtedly go to visit.

What would you like to give your daughter this birthday?

Freedom! But this is impossible. The most expensive gift on her birthday would be a date with her daughter Hera. But this is also impossible.

- How do you see the future of Hope?

To be honest, I would not want my daughter to go into politics. I would be glad if she emigrated, and somewhere in France, as a dissident, she was engaged in social activities. It is difficult to say what Nadia herself wants. But, as I understand it, she is not going to leave Russia. He will continue his education at Moscow State University and continue to work as a human rights activist.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is a student of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, a former member of the art group "Voina", then became a member of the "Moscow faction" of "Voina". She took part in several actions of the group, including a performance at the Biological Museum (2008) and "Cockroach Court" (2010). Since 2011 she has been a member of the punk band Pussy Riot.

On February 21, 2012, she held the so-called "punk prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. On March 3, 2012, on suspicion of hooliganism in connection with an unauthorized performance in the temple, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was arrested. Two more Pussy Riot members, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, were also detained. The international human rights organization Amnesty International declared them prisoners of conscience. On August 17 of the same year, the court found Tolokonnikova guilty of “gross violation of public order, expressing clear disrespect for society, committed on the basis of religious hatred and enmity,” and sentenced her to two years in prison in a general regime colony. Tolokonnikova did not admit her guilt at the trial, saying that "the action in the temple was of a political, not religious nature", according to her, she "did not have the intention to offend the believers."

In September and October 2013, Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike twice. Through a common-law husband, she handed over an open letter in which she spoke about the unbearable working and living conditions in correctional colony No. 14 in Mordovia. In the letter, the convict, in particular, spoke about a 16-17 hour working day in a sewing workshop, about a monthly salary of 29 rubles. Tolokonnikova also indicated that a crime had been committed against her - the deputy head of the colony Kupriyanov threatened her with murder and physical violence.

. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was arrested on March 2, 2012 for participating in the infamous "Punk Prayer". Former member of the Voina art group, active in the field of conceptual protest street art.

Biography of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was born on November 7, 1989 in Norilsk. A year after the birth of their daughter, the family moved to Krasnoyarsk, and a few more years later they returned back to Norilsk. Up to four years of education Nadezhda Tolokonnikova father and grandmother did.

After graduation, the girl went to Moscow and became a student at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. In dorm Nadezhda Tolokonnikova met the artist Petr Verzilov whom she later married. In 2008, 18-year-old Nadezhda gave birth to a daughter, Hera.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova about her daughter: “The name Gera was born spontaneously. Nobody invented it. Mythology was in the air. No one can now point to the person who suggested the name. At first, I hesitated to accept it. During the discussions, various names were proposed. So, for example, Petya's mother really wanted to call her Marusya. Well, what is Marusya like? Are you kidding me? How much she hitchhiked when I was in my third month! I traveled alone in Spain and Portugal. I traveled all over the peninsula. In Russia, of course, I would not have dared to travel like that.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the art group War

Long before creation Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova managed to become famous as a participant in a number of scandalous events. On February 29, 2008, she took part in the action of the art group "War", which was a group orgy at the Biological Museum. K.A. Timiryazev. According to the organizers, this action was timed to coincide with the presidential elections. Four couples took part in the action, and two weeks later they were detained on the territory of Moscow State University Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and former student of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University Vladimir Shilov. The girl was going to be expelled from the university, but later the dean changed his mind.

At this time, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was pregnant. Four days after the action, she gave birth to a daughter, Hera.

Later Nadezhda Tolokonnikova took part in other projects of the art group “Voina”, including “cockroach court” (scattering cockroaches in the Tagansky court building in 2010) and drawing a phallus on Liteiny Bridge in St. Petersburg. The last action became the winner of the "Innovation" award.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: “I like to get into extreme situations since childhood. I remember that I always lacked something unusual in my life. So, for example, riding a ferris wheel, reaching the very top, I began to think about how I would save myself if the cradle in which I was sitting started to fall. So I collected my crumbs of adrenaline. Sitting on the second floor of the house in the country, I imagined that the house would catch fire and how I would jump from the roof, and I wondered if I would break my legs or if I would fall into a tree and pierce me through. I have never lived in peace. Europe is boring because there is nothing to do there. And there is nothing to be done. In Russia, everything is different. Everything is unclear here. Everything is incomprehensible. The boundaries of legality are blurred."

Pussy Riot and the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

In August 2011 Nadezhda Tolokonnikova became a member of a punk rock band Pussy Riot. On March 3, 2012, she and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on charges of hooliganism in connection with their participation in the so-called punk prayer. During this action, participants Pussy Riot ran to the pulpit and salt of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where they tried to perform their new song "Mother of God, drive Putin away." The preliminary investigation was completed in June 2012. As a result Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and two other members of Pussy Riot were charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, committed by a group of individuals by prior conspiracy.

In defense Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina And Ekaterina Samutsevich many Russian and foreign actors and musicians performed, including Peter Gabriel, Madonna , group Red Hot Chili Peppers, English actor Stephen Fry, director Terry Gilliam and many others.

Sentence to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

August 17, 2012 Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina And Ekaterina Samutsevich were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. The girls were sentenced to two years in prison to be served in a general regime correctional colony. According to the judges, the defendants suffer from mixed personality disorder, but were fully aware of their actions and their consequences, and therefore recognized as sane and subject to criminal prosecution. The court considered the actions Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and other participants Pussy Riot a crime motivated by religious hatred.

According to the prosecution, the girls “intended to give their actions publicity and public outcry, they wanted to offend not only the ministers of the temple, but also the general public, they inflicted deep insult and offense on Orthodox believers.”

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, in her last word at the trial, said: “Listen to us - us, and not Arkady Mamontov, do not distort or misrepresent everything we have said, and allow us to enter into dialogue, contact with a country that is ours, and not only Putin and the patriarch.”

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and other convicts said they did not intend to ask the president for a pardon.

Even during the trial, the defense of the punk band members Pussy Riot took care of issues of guardianship of the young children of the defendants in order to avoid their transfer to foster families if their mothers were sentenced. In the spring of 2012, when there was a risk of arrest Petra Verzilova, husband Nadezhda Tolokonnikova documents have been prepared. In the event of a possible threat, a lawyer becomes the guardian of four-year-old Gera, the daughter of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Pyotr Verzilov Mark Feigin.

In infancy, Hera was seriously injured due to her mother's carelessness. After a quarrel with her family, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova went to live with friends, where there were no suitable conditions for a child. At the age of two months, the girl fell off the computer desk, where she was swaddled and often left unattended. Hera was diagnosed with a linear fracture of the parietal part of the skull, hematoma, brain contusion.

In 2013, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Russia" by Echo Moskva radio. MAXIM magazine included Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the list of 100 sexiest women in Russia in 2012.

Also French newspaper Le Figaro» acknowledged Nadezhda Tolokonnikova“Woman of the Year”, since, according to the printed edition, the girl was able to attract the maximum attention of the world community to the problem of freedom of speech in Russia, Nadezhda overtook Michelle Obama and Meryl Streep.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova served a sentence under the article "Hooliganism" (Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the Mordovian female colony IK-14. On September 23, 2013, the art activist went on a hunger strike. The reason for such a radical measure was the threat (reprisal with a fatal outcome) from the administration of the colony, who by this method tried to stop Nadezhda's indignations about m mass violation in IK-14 of the rights of convicted women. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova passed on through her husband Petra Verzilova an open letter in which she detailed all the violations and described the behavior of those in power.

The team in the sewing shop works 16-17 hours a day. From 7.30 to 0.30. Sleep - at best four hours a day. The day off happens once in a month and a half. Almost all Sundays are working days. The system of informal punishments is widely used. The convict becomes obedient material in the hands of the administration, which considers us exclusively as a free labor force. In June 2013, the salary was 29 rubles. The brigade sews 150 police suits a day. Where does the money received for them go? - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova asks in a letter.

Sanitary conditions, according to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, leave much to be desired: washing once a week, clogged sewerage from which excrement erupts, one shower for 800 people, etc. If the convict's complaint manages to reach higher authorities, then the colony administration punishes not only the complainant, but the entire brigade, for example, turning off the water for a week. Tolokonnikova's attempts to eliminate violations were suppressed by the bosses in radical ways - other convicts are given a direct order from above to physically and morally humiliate Nadezhda. As the art activist herself clarifies: “And if they find out that it happened because of you,” Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov continued, “then you will definitely never feel bad, because there is no bad thing in the next world.” Any bodily injury in the colony is inflicted only with the consent of the administration.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, in her statement to the Investigative Committee, asks to initiate a criminal case under the article “threat to kill” against the deputy head of IK-14 Yuri Kupriyanov. She also asks to provide her with protective measures, since she receives threats from the colony officer and from other prisoners, - explains lawyer Irina Khrunova.

Also Nadezhda Tolokonnikova ask to be transferred from the sewing workshop to the art workshop. Toloknnikova sent a letter to the Investigative Committee, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin, as well as in some media. Lieutenant colonel Kupriyanov sent a response statement of claim against the convicted - on the inducement to commit an official offense - the creation of preferential conditions for Tolokonnikova. On September 25, 2013, the commission of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation began work in correctional colony No. 14. It should be noted that another convicted member of the group “ Pussy Riot» Maria Alyokhinastarved for over a week because of the pressure on her in the colony. The release of two art activists is scheduled for March 2014.

Personal life of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

• Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is in a civil marriage with Pyotr Verzilov, an activist of the art group "War". The couple reproduced their daughter Hera in March 2008, but due to the political and legal situation, the child was given custody of a lawyer Mark Feygin.