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 ...

At his side throughout was his wife Raisa: elegant ... Recommended Mikhail Gorbachev had a ‘huge impact on world history’, says Vladimir Putin In Pictures: Man who helped end the Cold War ...

Getty Images 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 ...

Gorbachev was sometimes portrayed as henpecked, with Raisa as the imperious power behind ... was unable to speak for several days. Television images of her return to Moscow showed a shocked ...

(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 ...

Image source, Getty Images Image caption ... through the ranks of the Communist Party. Image caption, Gorbachev married his wife Raisa in 1953. After her death in 1999, he wrote that his life ...