Yevgeny Titarenko

Yevgeny Titarenko died on 28 April 2018 at the age of 82, following a long illness.

Titarenko suffered from chronic alcoholism. Every year, his condition only worsened. Around 1989 Titarenko finally moved to the hospital. The official diagnosis was organic brain damage, Alzheimer's disease. Initially, the writer settled into very good conditions in a private room with a refrigerator. He was visited by comrades from his literary workshop, but he gradually ceased to receive visitors in the hospital. Gorbacheva herself as her husband was high up in the national government, never visited him there. However she related in her memoirs... My brother was a gifted, talented person. But his talents did not come true. His talent has appeared unclaimed and ruined. Brother and drink for many months spent in the hospital. His fate a drama of mother and father. It is my constant pain that I carry in my heart for more than 30 years. I worry about his bitter tragedy, especially as a child we were very close, has always been between us a special emotional connection and attachment... is hard and painful. Titarenko spent more than thirty years in a psychiatric hospital near the village of Orlovka (Voronezh Oblast).

He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. According to the distribution in 1965, he arrived in Voronezh.

Yevgeny Maximovich Titarenko (Russian: Евгений Максимович Титаренко; December 5, 1935 – April 28, 2018) was a Russian writer and the brother of Raisa Gorbacheva.

Titarenko was born on December 5, 1935 in the village of Yar Funny West Siberian Krai (now the Rubtsovsk district of the Altai Territory) into the family of Maxim Andreyevich and Alexandra Petrovna. He was the brother of Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa Titarenko (Raisa Gorbacheva).