Who Are Mikhail Gorbachev's Granddaughters?
Although he's associated now with the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, make no mistake: Gorbachev was a Communist Party official and got to his position in life by toeing the communist line. Nevertheless, although Americans may be compelled to think of communist officials as malevolent, his daughter, Irina, describes her father as a loving, if circumspect, family man.
"As a family, we were very close, although in Papa's and Mama's work lives, there were also things that weren't discussed. I remember the constant hush at home. We were all buried in our books," she said, via Russia Beyond.
Gorbachev also deeply loved his wife, Raisa, according to Hindustan Times. And although lots of men love their wives, in Gorbachev's case he was smitten from the moment he met her. He wrote in his memoir "Alone with Myself," (via Hindustan Times) that after meeting his future bride, "I felt I was losing my head. I wanted to see Raisa and be wherever she was." Raisa died in 1999 from cancer at 67, per The Washington Post. Of her death, Gorbechev wrote, "I had never felt so lonely in my life ... I hope that we will meet again... We were happy together." While Raisa was gone, Gorbechev still had his daughter and granddaughters, who grew up to become very familiar with the spotlight.
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