Yevgeny Titarenko

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

Biography 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).

After a seven-year course he graduated from the Leningrad Naval Preparatory School, then he studied at the Leningrad Higher Naval School of Engineers of weapons but did not graduate. Demoted to the rank of sailor he served in the North, in the Arctic. Then he moved to the Donbas, where he worked in the mines.

He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

He was married to the Ossetian poet Zoya Gaboeva and together they have a daughter, Irina. After their divorce, Titarenko thought to create a new family, but all his attempts ended in failure. According to one version, none of the women he pursued could accept the way of life of the writer. On the other hand, the security services deliberately guided of all the ladies away from his Gorbacheva's brother.

Titarenko suffered from chronic alcoholism.