Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya

Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya (Russian: Ирина Георгиевна Ратушинская) (born 1954 March 4 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian lyric poet, essayist, and political dissident.

While in prison for her advocacy of human rights, she wrote some 250 poems, first scratching them into bars of soap & then, after memorizing them, washing them away. Stikhi (Poems, 1984) was published while she is imprisoned.

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• http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc44/bio.htm]