Gloria Kavetskaya

[Vadim Torchinov]

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

As far as I know, there was a girl named Gloria Kavetskatya in your class.

In the 2011-12 season, she has lived in Washington DC and volunteered for "Just Neighbours" http://justneighbors.org/february-2012/. She's the member of this group so some of you who have lived in DC that season may have seen her then and may know what was happening to her.

In the spring of 2012, Gloria has left U.S. for Russia, never to return back: on August 19, 2012 she was found hanged from the pylon of the railroad bridge in Irkutsk, Russia, a city where she was born: http://themoscowtimes.com/articles/harvard-grad-found-dead-on-irkutsk-bridge-17177. Well, the official version of her motives is so weird that sounds like a mockery. As far as I know, Gloria has taught English and Spanish, helping kids enter the colleges. She lived with her family and experienced no troubles with food, shelter, clothes and entertainment.

I'm neither a journalist nor a policeman. I haven't known Gloria's family name so it took me much time to figure out that it was she who was found hanged under the railway bridge in Irkutsk in the end of the summer 2012.

It's sad to know that Gloria is dead now. But I feel myself like shit when I think I could have saved her. Maybe I feel better if I figure out the motives that led so cheerful, warm and smart girl into the noose. Maybe at least some of these motives originate back in D.C. where she had lived for several months after her graduation.

So, dear ladies and gentlemen, would you be so kind to let me know anything related to Gloria's (or Gloriya's, her name might be transliterated this way) life between graduation and returning home? Hope you might know.

Feel free to reply either here or to my email addresses: teh...@mail.ru and russianbeac...@gmail.com

Regards

Vadim

P.S. Picture of Gloria's headstone with her portrait attached.