Biography
Why can a respectable woman, a mother of two children, be persecuted in modern Russia? Olga Mirgorodskaya was suspected of extremism only because of her faith in Jehovah God.
Olga was born in 1982 in Severobaikalsk, a small picturesque town on the shores of Lake Baikal. She has a younger sister. In 1987, the family moved to the village of Lermontovka (Khabarovsk Territory) on the border with China, where Olga lives to this day.
As a child, Olga was fond of sewing dresses for dolls and read a lot. She loves all this now, too. She also knits and needlepoints in her free time and has recently mastered hairdressing.
After school, Olga acquired two specialties at the vocational school: a driver and a car mechanic. She worked in a school cafeteria, as a librarian, a secretary in a correctional school, a postman, and more recently as a nanny.
In the 2000s, Olga became interested in the Bible. She found there the answer to the question that worried her: what is the meaning of life? The practical value of this ancient book motivated her to become a Christian.
Olga is married and has two children. The 20-year-old daughter is already living separately. Olga and her husband are raising a 9-year-old son. At 6 a.m. on December 21, 2020, the security forces broke into their home and searched the apartment for 4.5 hours in the presence of the child. Because of this, the believer experienced great stress. She unexpectedly became one of the many believers against whom a criminal case was opened under an “extremist” article.