Yevgeny Titarenko

Yevgeny Maximovich Titarenko (Russian: Евгений Максимович Титаренко; born December 5, 1935, the village of Vesyoly Yar, West Siberian Krai) is a Soviet writer, brother of Raisa Gorbacheva.

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

After a seven-year graduated from the Leningrad Naval Preparatory School, then he studied at the Leningrad Higher Naval School of Engineers of weapons (not finished). Demoted to the sailors, he served in the North, in the Arctic. Then he moved to the Donbass, where he worked in the mine.

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

He worked as an editor of fiction in the Central Black Earth publishing house. First proposed to publish the novel "Landslide" was, according to the publishers, weak and did not see the light. Instead, it was published adventure story for teenagers, "Discovery, War Admiral, journey Generalissimo and his chief of staff on the water, on land and under the ground".

She immediately drew the attention of readers and critics of the young author. His other novels - "The four with the market", "Miner", "Nikodimov Lake", "On a small piece of the universe" - published in Moscow and Voronezh mass circulation.

He was married to the Ossetian poet Zoya Gaboeva. There daughter Irina. After the divorce, Yevgeny Maksimovich thought to create a new family. But all attempts ended in failure. According to one version, none of the women and could not accept the way of life of the writer. On the other - the security services deliberately stripped of all the ladies from his Gorbacheva's brother.

In March, 85-th year for the provincial writer Yevgeny Titarenko took thoroughly. Disadvantaged relative could compromise the perfect couple Gorbachevs, so it must be isolated from society - a mandate received by employees of the Voronezh branch of the KGB. Initially Titarenko relocate, found himself in a modest one-room apartment in a residential district of Voronezh on the street Heroes of Siberians. Who would have thought that the new housing will be the local hangout for vagrants? When the writer was not at home, new friends Eugene easily knocked foot plywood door, and placed in an apartment at home. Titarenko never refused a shelter, unselfishly fed and watered "tenants", bestowed all of the money that would send him to my sister.

Chronic alcoholism.

What did with Titarenko, a little reminiscent of the treatment. Every year, his condition only worsened. Approximately 1989 Titarenko finally moved to the hospital. The official diagnosis - organic brain damage, Alzheimer's disease. Initially, the writer settled in very good conditions: a private room, refrigerator. It was visited by comrades in the literary workshop, but gradually ceased to guide visits the hospital. Raisa herself as her husband clothed government, never to visit a patient. But he decried the whole country in his memoirs: "My brother - 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". As if he buried alive, and after these lines were published in 1991 - in the words of fellow Titarenko at the Writers' Union, no one then did not consider him a man down and out.

More than thirty years in a mental hospital. Contained in a psychiatric hospital near the village of Orlovka (Voronezh Oblast). According to another version exported from there sister relatives.