Biography
In the fall of 2022, Natalya Voropaeva, a hairdresser from Krasnoyarsk, found herself involved in a criminal case for believing in God.
Natalia was born in May 1971 in Krasnoyarsk, was the only child in the family. Her mother worked as a quality control master at a combine plant, her father was engaged in the repair of televisions. Over time, their marriage broke up. When the girl was 9 years old, her mother remarried. According to Natalia, due to the rude attitude of her father and stepfather, she grew up insecure and shy.
Mom took Natalia to the ballet studio for classical dance classes. The girl loved to draw and read a lot, was also fond of athletics, but because of shyness she left the sport. For the same reason, she could not enter the 10th grade - she was afraid of exams. At the age of 16, Natalia found her job: she graduated from the courses of universal hairdressers at the training and production plant. She has been working in this specialty all her life.
Since childhood, Natalia has been asking questions: why is everything so beautiful in nature, and there is so much injustice and suffering in the world? What does a person live for? Why do people die? Growing up, she began to look for answers to these questions in different religions. In 1994, Nataliya met Jehovah's Witnesses. They showed her in the Bible that death was never God's plan and that paradise would be on earth. "I then exclaimed: 'Here it is, the truth!'" recalls Natalia. - Although the situation in the family remained the same, from that moment on, my attitude to life changed dramatically. Despair and hopelessness are gone, every day sparkled with bright colors," she said. In 1996, Nataliya decided to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses. After a while, her mother also began to study the Bible, but, unfortunately, the woman's life was tragically cut short.
Natalia noted that thanks to Bible teaching, she gained self-confidence, and at the same time her creative abilities were revealed - she began to write poetry, graduated from art photography courses. Natalya loves to observe nature through the camera lens and give her friends her work. During the pandemic, she began to master the impasto technique in painting and restore furniture.
In 2018, Nataliya's house was searched for the first time, and later she was interrogated as a witness in the case of her co-religionist Andrey Stupnikov. After that, her health deteriorated.
Relatives, friends and clients of the believer are perplexed by the criminal prosecution she has faced and consider it unfair. They do not understand why such a peaceful and calm woman, who loves to create and give beauty to others, is credited with criminal intent.