Suzanne Massie in Moscow in 2022. She was there to attend the former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's funeral. Anna Aleksashina, via Massie family ...

The first image, printed that year, features Stalin and three colleagues, including secret police official Nikolai Yezhov. Three years later, the image appeared in print again––without Yezhov.

Mikhail Gorbachev receives applause from the audience in Oslo as he enters to deliver a Nobel lecture in 1991, a year after winning the Peace Prize. Pic: AP Economically, perestroika was not working.

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reads some notes in his office with a portrait of his late wife Raisa in the background, at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001.

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official Moscow.

Thousands of mourners lined Moscow streets Saturday to pay their respects at the official funeral of the final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at 91 ...

A portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev is displayed on the wall during his memorial service at the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow, on Sept. 3, 2022. POOL/AFP via Getty Images ...

The Kremlin's official explanation: No space in his schedule. As people made their way inside the Columned Hall of the House of Unions, sombre music played - a huge black and white portrait of Mr ...

Thousands of people in Russia have paid their final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end. Many queued for hours to file past his coffin ...

Mikhail Gorbachev: Former Soviet leader dies age 91 'after long illness' Mr Gorbachev's crowning achievement is seen by the West as ending the Cold War without bloodshed, but he failed to prevent ...

For people of a certain generation who saw pictures of Mikhail Gorbachev on almost a daily basis for several years, the most distinguishing feature of the former Soviet leader’s appearance was a large ...

Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on Saturday with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as "a peacemaker" who ...