Larisa Yurievna
Gumerov was born on March 31st, 1955, in Nizhnii
Novgorod and she grew up on the Volga River. She comes from a family of medical
doctors. Her father was a world famous professor of General Therapy and
Endocrinology. Poetry, reading books, and music were the main things in her
life from early childhood. She was engaged in high level sport and was a member
of the Russian National Fencing Team. She traveled often across the country for
competitions and training.
After obtaining the highest medical
education and a degree, she became a medical doctor. Larisa worked as a general
practitioner, and served head of the Scientific Diagnostic Department of the
Institute of Cardiology in Tyumen. She was fascinated in Immunology and she
dreamed to dedicate her life to this Science. However, in 1993 due to family
circumstances, she came to America and turned completely to Russian Literature,
which she loved from her childhood.
Alexander Pushkin was always her
favorite poet. She considers all Russian writers humanists, especially
Anastasia Tsvetaeva. These writers were her mentors
in creative arts. She befriended Anastasia Tsvetaeva
during the last years of her life. Larisa has publications in Russia and the
USA. She is an author of script and poems for the film "Messenger"
about Jose Cortes, released by WMNB television in New York. She also wrote and
published a book about Jose Cortes. “The Chosen One of the Iveron Theotokos". 2000.
Currently, Larisa resides with her family in
Maryland. Larisa was a member of the Editorial Board and a permanent author of
the Russian-language literary magazine "Greater Washington". In
2000 she created her own bilingual site and now she is mostly involved in
Russian History, Religious and Publicist analytics and works. She is also
writing lyrics and poems. The Russian writer has performed many pilgrimages
throughout the world, such as holy sites in Greece and Siberia, as well as
historic Russian cities on the Golden Ring. These travels have been an
essential source of inspiration for her poem about Russian History called “VLADIMIR”
(2016). Larisa is a mother of four
daughters and she is a grandmother of five grand children.
Articles in English
1. Have you ever seen a rainbow – in the winter? About abrupt climate change in Maryland. February 25th, 2017.
2. The Sun and Star Princess. A
page dedicated to my children. December, 2016.
3. President Obama is “not going to
fight with Ukraine”. The weird speech in White
suit & Black shoes. August 28th, 2014.
4. Sergei
BODROV tragedy: The Mystery of the Kazbek Mount that he might never knew.
Sept. 2d, 2012.
5. 140 years since the Martyr
Empress Alexandra Romanova’s Birthday. June 7, 2012.
6. President Obama does not care
about Lazukin’s murder in Oregon, May 22, 2012.
7. Kurt
Vonnegut: Bye, Miracle! April 12, 2007.
8. Our
Lady of Iveron. 24 years of the greatest
miracle of the 20-th Century. November 24, 2002.
9. Ethics
of Sustainable Energy
10. You made America so beautiful.
Make it right! The Prayer and the Confession for a good start
11. Report
from the Newark Exhibit "Private Life of Nicholas and Alexandra".
January 5, 2004.
12. Mankind's Spiritual Clock. May, 2002.
13. Nativity
Church in Bethlehem Standoff Memorandum. April, 2002.
14. Save the Holy Land for next
Generations! April,
2002.
15. September 11-th Declaration of
Committee 2001.
16. The
Mysteries of the Turin Shroud. 2000.
From The Old Content
"Russian Throne", poem-confession
"Mysteries of the Turin
Shroud", 2000 years of Christian Era
"Swallow's
Nest", essay-memory of Anastasia Tsvetaeva
The home
church of the Gumerovs family in Maryland, USA.
Biography 2009,
created for
Larisa
Yu. Gumerov, M. D., writer, poet, Editor in Chief of the web site www.luchmir.com,was born in Nizhii Novgorod,
Russia, into a family of medical doctors. Besides school in her early life she was very interested
in sports, music, and literature and was successful in these fields (e.g. she
was a member of the Russian National Fencing Team).
Her
mother, Maria Mikhailovna, M. D., pediatrician, worked
in regional clinics in Nizhnii Novgorod and Perm. She
was also a great mezzo-soprano singer and classical music lover. Maria Mikhailovna provided many efforts to teach her three
children in respect to all kind of arts. Now she is retired and lives in Perm
with Larisa’s elder sister Tatiana. Her father, Yurii
Ivanovich Kardakov (1921 -
2005), M. D., Ph. D., Sc. D., was a professor of Medicine, clinical doctor,
world-known scientist (endocrinologist), thyоroid
deceases specialist. He was also a great enthusiast of Russian and World
literature and culture. For many years he held a position of the Head of
Department of Hospital Therapy in Perm and Tyumen State Medical Institutes.
After
she graduated from Perm Medical State Institute in 1978, Larisa completed
clinical studies at the same institute and worked as a medical doctor in
hospitals and conducted scientific research. In 1986 she became the Head of the
Scientific Consulting Department and research scientist of the Institute of
Cardiology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (Siberian Branch,Tyumen).
In
1993 due to family circumstances the Gumerov family moved to the United States,
where Larisa turned her research efforts to literature studies. She dedicated
herself to literature, poetry, and Russian culture. In 2000, she established web
site www.luchmir.com.
Since
1993 Larisa and her family belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church outside
Russia (ROCOR). After the schism she remained to stay on the positions of
Russian Orthodoxy Abroad. Her family now has a home church of Sts. Mary
Magdalene and Royal Martyrs under the patronage of Valentine, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Vladimir (Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church).
Currently
Larisa resides with her family in Maryland, USA. Mrs. Gumerov has 4 daughters
and 3 grandchildren. Her husband is mathematician, a professor of the
University of Maryland, is an internationally recognized scientist for his
works in physics, applied mathematics, and computational methods.
Articles about The Royal Martyrs
posted on www.luchmir.com include (not a full list):
1.
«The Lily of the Heaven
Jerusalem. Biography materials and historical parallels» (2002),
Were author studies the way of
life of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth from her birth in Darmstadt to her deed in Alapaevsk.
Author attempts
to evaluate the unique contribution
of St. Elizabeth to the spiritual revival of Russia after communist disaster
and to the world ethical progress and history of mankind.
2. «Sun
in the Mazurka rhythm» (2005).
A
report from the Exhibit on the life of the Russian Royal Family held in New
Ark, NJ, USA, which attracted a great public interest.
3. «White
Flowers of a Royal Martyr» (2007)
A letter in a big ROCOR sorrow after «the act of union» with
Moscow Patriarchy.
4. «KGB and Palestinian Society» (2007).
The
paper is dedicated to the contemporary state of the Imperial Orthodox
Palestinian Society headed by the Grand Duke Sergey Romanov and after his death
by St. Elizabeth.
5. «Who
and to Whom Pays to Destroy the Sts. Martha and Mary Convent?» (2008).
This
is a paper protesting against Natalia Moliboga, a new
supervisor of the Sts. Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow, founded by St.
Elizabeth, and an appeal to good will people
to save the convent and to protect the main action of her life.
6. «The
Most Beautiful Bride of Russia» (2008).
Photo gallery dedicated to St.
Elizabeth and Gethsemane.
7. «Moliboga Destroyed the Convent of Grand Duchess
Elizabeth» (2009).
This
paper states that Moliboga, a supervisor of the Sts.
Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow, completely perverted the principles of the
convent established by St. Elizabeth,
which is a real disaster for Russia, Church, and the entire world.
8. «Five Years since Queen Victoria
of England Appearance» (2009).
In the paper the authors
describes her impressions after her meeting with a great person of the 19th
century, which happened on the Andros island in Greece in 2004.
An Akafist
(Orthodox Hymn) to St. Elizabeth was written after this event, which full text
is provided in the paper.
9.
«Desecration
of relics of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorvna
in Jerusalem» (2009).
10. «The false identification of the
Royal Martyrs relics» (2004)
Alec Knight, professor
anthropologist of Stanford University, USA, proved the lie in the
identification of the Royal Martyrs relics.
Archangel Michael Destroying
satan.
The Church Glass Stained Window.
Germany. Munchen. 1857.
HE WILL COME SOON!