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Raisa Gorbachev

AKA Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko

Born: 5-Jan-1932
Birthplace: Rubtsovsk, Siberia, Russia
Died: 20-Sep-1999
Location of death: Münster, Germany [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Leukemia
Remains: Buried, Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia

Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: First Lady

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: First Lady of the Soviet Union


[1] Mnster University Hospital, Mnster, Germany.

Father: Maxim Andreyevich Titarenko
Mother: Alexandra
Husband:
Mikhail Gorbachev (m. 25-Sep-1953, until her death, one child)
Daughter: Irina Mihailovna Virganskaya (b. 1956)

    University: Moscow State University
    Teacher: Moscow State University

    Audience with the Pope 1990
    Stroke 1991
    Russian Ancestry Maternal
    Ukrainian Ancestry Paternal

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Meeting Gorbachev (1-Sep-2018) · Herself

Appears on the cover of:
Time, 6-Jun-1988, DETAILS: Raisa -- A new image for the Soviet Union's overworked, underappreciated women






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