What is Raisa Gorbachova?
{{Infobox officeholder | birthname = Raisa Maximovna Titarenko | image = RIAN archive 691369 Raisa Gorbacheva.jpg | caption = | image_size = 250px | office = [[Spouses of the heads of state of the Soviet Union|First Lady of the Soviet Union]] | term_start = 1 October 1988 | term_end = 25 December 1991 | predecessor = [[Lydia Gromyko]] | successor = Title abolished | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1932|1|5}} | birth_place = [[Rubtsovsk]], [[Altai Krai]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1999|9|20|1932|1|5}} | death_place = [[Münster]], Germany | relations = {{plainlist | * Maxim Andreyevich Titarenko (father) * Alexandra Petrovna Porada (mother) }} | spouse = [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] (m. 1953–1999; her death); 1 child | children = Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya | alma_mater = [[Moscow State University]]<ref>Gorbachev's Revolution, p. 55</ref> | profession = [[Philosopher]] }} '''Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva''' ({{lang-ru|Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва}} <small>[[Romanization of Russian|tr.]]</small> ''Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova'', née '''Titarenko''', Титаре́нко; 5 January 1932&nbsp;– 20 September 1999) was a [[Soviet]] activist and philanthropist. She was the wife of Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. Gorbacheva was the First Lady of the Soviet Union from October 1988 to December 1991. Gorbacheva suffered from a [[stroke]] in October 1993.<ref name=Schmemann>{{cite news|last1=Schmemann|first1=Serge|title=Gorbachev, Energetic, Chatty, but Not Yet Political|newspaper=The New York Times|page=3|date=3 November 1993|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/world/gorbachev-energetic-chatty-but-not-yet-political.html}}</ref> She was diagnosed with [[leukemia]] and died on 20 September 1999 at Münster University Hospital in Germany, aged 67. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} * [http://www.gorby.ru/en/gorbacheva/biography/ Raisa Gorbacheva biography at the Gorbachyov Foundation website] *