Background
Natalia Pelevine was born in Moscow. On her mother"s side, Pelevine is a descendant of the Poniatowski aristocratic family.
Natalia Pelevine was born in Moscow. On her mother"s side, Pelevine is a descendant of the Poniatowski aristocratic family.
Pelevine moved to England as a child and attended a private school, Southbank International.
She is of Russian and Polish descent. Her great grandfather, a priest, was one of the organizers of an anti-Communist uprising in mid-western Soviet Russia in 1932. 60,000 people participated, but it was ultimately crushed.
He was arrested by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs and was killed after spending six months in jail.
He was recently canonized. She then received Bachelor in Art History from a London University.
lieutenant was first staged in October 2006 in North London at the New End. The Russian version of In Your Hands, directed by Skanderbek Tulparov, had its premiere at the Russian Dramatic in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in April 2008 and was banned after its opening night performance by the President of Dagestan, Mukhu Aliyev, who attended the performance.
Political Pelevine was one of the people behind the independent research into the Moscow theatre siege.
Pelevine consulted on a number of documentary films about the Moscow theatre siege. She was also involved with the Strategy-31 Abroad organization, which rallied for the article 31 of the Russian Constitution and for freedom and democracy in Russia, and opposes the current government. She was the organizer of the New York Strategy 31 pickets, on 31 August and 31 October 2010.
She also organized an Oleg Kashin picket in November 2010 and a demonstration in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on 12 December 2010, during which she mentioned setting up a new movement.
In early 2011, the Democratic Russia Committee was founded by Pelevine and supporters. A criminal investigation into Pelevine was opened by the Investigative Committee of Russia.
On March 11, 2016 she was charged with having a recorder disguised as a pen and illegally taping police officials According to The Independent, in 2009 she was engaged to a Russian Special Forces officer, Andrei Yakhnev. They have since split up.
Pelevine has appeared as a political commentator on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera, RTVi, PressTV, the British Broadcasting Corporation and other television and radio channels. Formerly the head of the December 5 Party, Pelevine joined Rassemblement pour la République (Rally for the Republic)-PARNAS in March 2015.
A member of non-governmental organization Nord Ost, she remains in close contact with Nord Ost and Beslan victims and their families.