Biography
Left alone with three children in the difficult 1990s, Tatyana Pasynkova found solace in her Bible study. Thanks to this, she was able to maintain a positive outlook on life despite all the troubles. The pensioner's usual way of life was violated by a search in her house and subsequent criminal prosecution because of her faith.
Tatyana was born in January 1965 in the village of Kardonikskaya (Karachay-Cherkessia). She has an elder brother and a sister. Their parents worked all their lives on the local collective farm. As a child, Tatyana attended various clubs: embroidery, knitting, wood burning, and also danced and played in the school basketball team.
Tatyana graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after Timiryazev with a degree in agronomist-breeder. She worked at Tashkent State University in Uzbekistan. Then, with her husband and eldest son, they moved to Kazakhstan. After the birth of her youngest son, she worked at a cheese factory, kept livestock, sold dairy products and crops from the farmstead. She recalls that it was very difficult for her financially at that time.
For many years Tatyana had been looking for God, and once in Kazakhstan she was offered to study the Bible. The study was interrupted due to the fact that her husband left Tatyana, who was pregnant with her third child, and she had to return from Kazakhstan with the children to Russia to her parents. Three years later, she began to study the Bible again. In 2000, she made the decision to embark on the Christian path. The three sons share their mother's religious views.
In her free time, Tatyana is engaged in a garden and runs a household. She also loves to pick mushrooms and is fond of patchwork.
Law enforcement officers have come to Tatyana's house with searches five times since 2017, as a result, a criminal case was opened against her. The eldest son, Aleksey, and his wife, Yuliya, also became victims of religious persecution. Because of all this, Tatyana's health deteriorated. The children try to comfort and support her.