Larisa Gumerov

Larisa Yurievna Gumerov was born on March 31st, 1955, in Nizhnii Novgorod and she grew up on the Volga River. She comes from a family of medical doctors. Her mother, Maria Mikhailovna Kardakova, was a pediatrician, and her father, Yuri Ivanovich Kardakov, was a renowed professor of General Therapy and Endocrinology.

Poetry, literature, and music occupied Larisa’s life from early childhood. She was also a serious athlete and was a member of the Russian National Fencing Team. Larisa traveled often across the USSR for competitions and training.

Larisa pursued medicine in her university years. After obtaining the highest medical education and a degree, Larisa became a medical doctor. Larisa worked as a general practitioner, and served head of the Scientific Diagnostic Department of the Institute of Cardiology in Tyumen. She was fascinated by immunology and dreamed to dedicate her life to the field.

While working as a cardiologist in Tyumen, she met her spouse, Nail Asgotovich Gumerov (Jan

18th 1960-2022) whom she has four daughters and five grandchildren with.

In 1993, Larisa and Nail moved their family to the United States. Larisa decided to not pursue medicine in the United States, but instead, chose to devote herself completely to her family and turned to literature and writing, which she loved from her childhood.

Alexander Pushkin was always her favorite poet. She considers all Russian writers humanists, especially Anastasia Tsvetaeva. These writers were her mentors in creative arts. She befriended Anastasia Tsvetaeva, who had high regard for Larisa’s work, during the last years of her life.

Larisa has publications in Russia and the USA. She is an author of script and poems for the film “Messenger” about Jose Cortes, released by WMNB television in New York. She also wrote and published a book about Jose Cortes. “The Chosen One of the Iveron Theotokos”

(https://www.luchmir.com/LarisaPersonal/IveronChosenManEng.htm)2000.

Larisa was a member of the Editorial Board and a permanent author of the Russian-language literary magazine “Greater Washington (http://www.bolshoiwashington.com/)”. In 2000 she created her own bilingual site and published articles on Russian history, religion and spirituality, current events. Larisa also published her own poetry.

The Russian writer has performed many pilgrimages throughout the world, such as holy sites in Greece and Siberia, as well as historic Russian cities on the Golden Ring. These travels have been an essential source of inspiration for her poem about Russian History called “VLADIMIR”

(https://www.luchmir.com/Vladimir/PoetryVl.htm) (2016).

In the last years of her life, Larisa was very saddened by the loss of her beloved husband and mainly wrote poems about him and their love.