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After a year of further work, she gave up a prized life in the capital to move to the south of Russia with her new husband, Mikhail Gorbachev. She had met Gorbachev, who was a year older and studying law in Moscow, at a dance in 1951.
In 1908 he emigrated to western Europe, where he worked closely with the Bolshevik leader Vladimir I. Lenin and met his future wife, Olga Bronshtein, the sister of Leon Trotsky.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (Russian: Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва Romanized Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova, née Titarenko, Титаренко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet-Russian activist and philanthropist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Jul 18, 2022 · The wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa was a brilliant sociologist in her own right, and as the first visible First Lady of the Soviet Union, became a sensation in the West, where her candour, forcefulness and glamorous appearance made her an important asset in her husband’s efforts to win over hearts and minds abroad.
Sep 7, 2022 · The death of the last head of the USSR on August 30 has spurred obituaries in the Western media that hail Gorbachev as the “reformist Soviet leader who lifted the Iron Curtain,” per the New York Times. It wasn’t until the 38th paragraph that the paper finally mentioned his wife, Raisa.
The wife of the last head of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, was completely different. Stylish and exquisite, she became a sort of symbol of perestroika in terms of fashion and style and inspired...
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Sep 21, 1999 · Raisa M. Gorbachev, the bold and beautiful wife of former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev who stepped out of the Kremlin’s shadow to become Russia’s first truly public first lady, died...
