M.S. Gorbachev's trip to Leningrad

October 1987. USSR. Leningrad. Actors Yevgeny Alekseyevich Lebedev (Luka), Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Nastya), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and his wife Raisa Maksimovna (from left to right in the background) after the performance "The Lower Depths" directed by Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov based on the play by Maxim Gorky at the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. Yuri Belinsky/TASS