M.S. Gorbachev's trip to Leningrad

October 1987. USSR. Leningrad. First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Yuri Filippovich Solovyov, actors Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Nastya), Yevgeny Alekseyevich Lebedev (Luka), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Maksimovna, chief director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov and actor Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov (Kostylev) (from right to left in the foreground) after the performance "The Lower Depths" directed by G. A. Tovstonogov based on the play by Maxim Gorky at the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. Yuri Belinsky/TASS