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Biography of Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev
Name: Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev
Birth Date: January 5, 1932
Death Date: September 20, 1999
Place of Birth: Rubtsovsk, Siberia, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Female
Occupations: first lady
Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev
Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev (Gorbachev) (née Titorenko; 1932-99) set a new style and tradition as first lady of the Soviet Ungion.When Raisa Gorbachev traveled she kept a busy schedule, often independent of her husband Mikhail Gorbachev. Unlike the wives of most former Soviet leaders, Raisa Gorbachev accompanied her husband on official visits and often traveled with him on trips within the U.S.S.R. The grandmotherly Nina Khrushcheva sometimes accompanied her husband on trips abroad, but Raisa Gorbachev was of a different generation and possessed her own unique style and demeanor, which captured the attention and interest of the world. She continued to travel with her husband following his ouster as head of the Soviet Union in 1991.Raisa Gorbachev was a trendsetter in Soviet society. Beautiful and youthful in appearance, she dressed distinctively and fashionably. She had a petite, attractive figure and a youthful face with short red …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…who had come to see Gorbachev in a more sympathetic light following her cancer diagnosis. Further Reading The personal history as well as an account of the political scene is told by Raisa Gorbachev in I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections (1991), a series of conversations with the Soviet writer Georgi Pryakhin. A biography, Raisa: The 1st First Lady of the Soviet Union, by Urda Jurgens also is available. A number of interesting articles have appeared on Raisa Gorbachev and on her marriage to Mikhail Gorbachev. Soviet Life featured an article, "Raisa Gorbachev: the first Soviet First Lady," by Swedish journalist Kerstin Gustafsson (June 1990). Gail Sheehy has written an in-depth analysis of Gorbachev, including discussion of his marriage to Raisa, in Vanity Fair (February 1990). TIME featured Raisa Gorbachev in a story on Soviet women (June 6, 1988). The editors of TIME put together a portrait of Raisa in their MS. Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography (1988).
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