3 A young Gorbachev at the age of 19, wearing the Red Banner of Labor medal he received for driving a harvest combine on the plains of southern Russia. 4 A portrait of Raisa Gorbacheva and Mikhail ...

That research gave her vivid pictures of the realities of ... Russian television channel TV Rain about Gorbachev’s “eternal love” for Raisa. She was asked how she would describe the former ...

Gorbachev married his wife Raisa in 1953. After her death in 1999, he wrote that his life has lost "its principal meaning" In 1985, the Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko died just a year after ...

Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, in Budapest on June 9, 1986 | Daniel Janin/AFP via Getty Images A writer of a letter to the party’s Central Committee asked, and not in a nice way, ”Who does she ...

(Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images) The tumultuous events ... he told his wife, Raisa, “We can’t go on living like this.” Mr. Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at 91, never intended to destroy ...

"I have never had such an acute feeling of loneliness." But Gorbachev's eyes light up as he points out pictures of Raisa in the book: the holiday snaps, the family photos, pictures of her ...

He will be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow next to his wife, Raisa ... transparent. Gorbachev and his wife were also known for a stylish charm at odds with the images of their ...