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Polina Zherebtsova was born on 20 March, 1985 in Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Chechen Russian documentarian, poet, and author. Discover Polina Zherebtsova's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 38 years old?
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Novelist, journalist |
| Age |
38 years old |
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Pisces |
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20 March 1985 |
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20 March |
| Birthplace |
Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality |
Russia
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Polina Zherebtsova Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Polina Zherebtsova Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Polina Zherebtsova worth at the age of 38 years old? Polina Zherebtsova’s income source is mostly from being a successful Novelist. She is from Russia. We have estimated Polina Zherebtsova's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
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Under Review |
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Polina Zherebtsova (Полина Викторовна Жеребцова; 20 March 1985) is a Chechen Russian documentarian, poet and author of the diaries Ant in a Glass Jar, covering her childhood, adolescence and youth that witnessed three Chechen wars.
She was born in a mixed ethnic family in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, USSR.
Polina Zherebtsova was born in 1985 in Grozny and lived there for almost twenty years.
She considers herself a cosmopolitan as she has multi-national ancestry.
Polina's father died when she was very young.
Polina's maternal grandfather Zherebtsov Anatoly Pavlovich, with whom she had formed a friendship, worked in Grozny for more than 25 years as a TV journalist-cameraman.
Polina's maternal grandmother was a professional artist.
Paternal grandfather was an actor and musician.
Polina's paternal grandmother was a professional actress.
Author of a Report on war crimes in Chechnya in 1994–2004.
Polina was born in Grozny, USSR, and started her diary when she was 9 years old, at the start of the First Chechen War.
She was still living in Grozny when the Second Chechen War began.
Ant in a glass jar. Chechen diaries of 1994–2004 has been translated into Ukrainian, Slovenian, French, Lithuanian, Finnish, German, Georgian, and Chechen.
Polina Zherebtsova has given interviews to the BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, has participated in literary festivals around the world.
She has always offered publishing rights for translations of all of her books by herself, without the use of services of literary agents.
She came from a family of Chechens and Ukrainians.
She calls herself a cosmopolitan.
Polina's father was a lawyer, who died when Polina was a child.
Her mother, Elena, worked as a senior goods manager at a large company.
She devoted her spare time to her daughter's education.
Polina grew in a family that equally revered books like the Torah, the Bible and the Koran.
Since childhood, she had studied religion, history, and philosophy.
In 1994, Polina started a diary in which she recorded what was happening around her.
Her diaries cover her childhood, adolescence and youth that witnessed three Chechen wars.
School, first love, quarrels with parents, what is familiar to any teenager, side by side in the life of Polina with the bombing, starvation, devastation and poverty.
On 21 October 1999, the market in Grozny was shelled where she was helping her mother sell newspapers, and Polina was moderately injured.
On 21 October 1999 she was wounded by shrapnel during a missile attack on Grozny Central Market.
In 2002, she began to work as a journalist.
She is a member of PEN International and the Union of Journalists of Russia.
She has been awarded the Janusz Korczak international prize in Jerusalem in two categories (narrative and documentary prose).
Since 2002, she has begun to work as a journalist.
In 2003–2004, she studied at the School of Correspondents.
In 2004, Chechen diary was completed when the author was 19 years old.
In 2006, she has been awarded the Janusz Korczak international prize in Jerusalem in two categories (narrative and documentary prose).
Competition theme was "terror and children."
Since 2007, she has been a member of the Russian Union of Journalists.
In 2012, she was awarded Andrei Sakharov Award “For Journalism as an Act of Conscience”.
In 2013, she received a political asylum in Finland.
"Politkovskaya described war as a journalist from the outside. Polina Zherebtsova writes about war from inside the heart of darkness. Der Spiegel №10 /2015."
