Yevgeny Titarenko

Yevgeny Maximovich Titarenko (Russian: Евгений Максимович Титаренко; December 5, 1935, Vesyoly Yar, West Siberian Krai — April 28, 2018, Voronezh) was a Soviet 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 Donbass, where he worked in the mines.

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. He first offered to publish the novel Landslide which was, according to the potential publishers, weak and thus did not see the light of day. Instead Titarenko had published an adventure story for teenagers, Discoveries, Wars, Wanderings of the Admiral-Generalissimo and his Сhief of Staff on Water, on Earth and under Earth. He immediately drew the attention of readers and critics to the young author. His other novels Four to the Мarket Рlace, Miner, Nikodimov Lake, On a Small Рiece of Тhe Universe was published in Moscow and Voronezh and achieved mass circulation.

He was married to the Ossetian poet Zoya Gaboeva and together theyT 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.

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's 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 Titarenko 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.

Titarenko suffered from chronic alcoholism.

What did with Titarenko, a little reminiscent of the treatment. Every year, his condition only worsened. Approximately on 1989 Titarenko finally moved to the hospital. The official diagnosis organic brain damage, Alzheimer's disease.[3] 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 she decried in her 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 Titarenko's at the Writers' Union, no one then did not consider him a man down and out.

Titarenko spent 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.

Death

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

Bibliography

• Miner (Voronezh, 1968)
• Nikodimov Lake (Moscow, 1973)
• Nikodimov Lake (Voronezh, 1974)
• Inventing Тenderness (Voronezh, 1977)
• The Сritical Тemperature (Voronezh, 1978)
• On a Small Рiece of Тhe Universe (Moscow, 1982)
• Four to the Мarket Рlace (Voronezh, 1983)
• On a Small Рiece of Тhe Universe (Voronezh, 1985)