Raisa Gorbacheva Raisa Gorbacheva Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva ( "Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova", , Титаре́нко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Russian activist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She raised funds for the preservation of Russian cultural heritage, fostering of new talent, and treatment programs for children's blood cancer. Raisa Maximovna Titarenko was born in the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai region of Siberia. She was the eldest of three children of Maxim Andreyevich Titarenko, a railway engineer originally from Chernigov in Ukraine, and his Siberian wife, Alexandra Petrovna Porada, originally from Veseloyarsk. She spent her
The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife DVD boxset, together with "His Big White Self", in April 2006. In 1992, the former columnist Jani Allan sued Channel 4, the British broadcaster, for libel, claiming that in the documentary "The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife" she was presented as a "woman of easy virtue". Amidst a montage of photographs from Allan's earlier days as a photographic model and "Sunday Times" quotes, Broomfield claimed that Jani Allan had had an affair with Terre'Blanche. The significance of the case led to its inclusion in the 1992 annual edition of Whitaker's Almanack. During the trial, Channel 4 denied the