Writer and animal rights activist Tatiana Goricheva has died.

Tatiana Goricheva, a Soviet and Russian writer, philosopher and animal rights activist, died in St. Petersburg at the age of 78. This was announced on September 23 by literary critic and Japanist Alexander Chantsev.

"Tatiana Mikhailovna Goricheva has died. We last saw each other less than a month ago, when she was already in the hospital," said Chantsev on his Facebook page (owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in Russia, banned in the Russian Federation).

Tatiana Goricheva was born in Leningrad. She has worked her way up from a technical translator to one of the prominent religious thinkers.

In the 1970s, her apartment became a center of unofficial culture: the Samizdat magazine 37 was published there and religious seminars were held. Later, she participated in the creation of the first independent women's magazine, Woman and Russia.

After emigrating in the 1980s, she lectured at foreign universities and founded a publishing house in Paris.

After returning to Russia in 1988, Goricheva devoted her last years to animal welfare, heading the relevant society and publishing works on the subject.

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