Raisa Gorbacheva for two months under the supervision of Professor Thomas Buechner, a leading haematologist. However, she died on 20 September aged 67. Her body was repatriated to Russia and interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. In 2006, her family founded the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation, which raises money to support those with childhood cancer. 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
Rosa Raisa In Chicago she added Maddalena in "Andrea Chénier", Zina in de Gounzberg's "Le Vieil Aigle", "Isabeau" in the North American premiere of Mascagni's opera, Maliella in "'I gioielli della Madonna", "La Gioconda", Basiliola in Montemezzi's "La Nave", Puccini's "Suor Angelica", Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser", Minnie in "La Fanciulla del West", Leonora in "La forza del destino", Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly" (at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago, also Giordano's "Fedora" at Ravinia), Toinette in Frank Harling's jazz opera "A Light From Saint Agnes", Rosalinde in an English-language "Die Fledermaus", and Conchita in Zandonai's opera of the same name. Raisa also, of course,