Mikhail Gorbachev family, wife, children, grandchildren, parents, siblings
Samuel Coleman Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has passed away at the age of 91. He was a Russian and Soviet politician who was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union.
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Mikhail Gorbachev wife
He married Raisa Maximovna Titarenko in September 1953. They met while she was studying philosophy in Moscow.
She later earned an advanced degree at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Afterward, she taught for a while at Moscow State University.
On September 20, 1999, she passed away from leukemia at the age of 67.
Mikhail Gorbachev children
In 1957, he welcomed his daughter and only child, Irina Mikhailovna, with his wife Raisa.
Mikhail Gorbachev grandchildren
He has two grandchildren named Ksenia Virganskaya and Anastasia Virganskaya.
Mikhail Gorbachev parents
Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev and Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva. His paternal family who were ethnic Russians, moved to the region from Voronezh several generations before.
On the other hand, his maternal family were of ethnic Ukrainian heritage and migrated from Chernihiv.
Mikhail Gorbachev siblings
He has a younger brother named Aleksandr, who was born in 1947.
