FILE – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stands with daughter Irina and granddaughter K …

FILE - Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stands with daughter Irina and granddaughter K ...

FILE – Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stands with daughter Irina and granddaughter Krenia, foreground third right, as they grieve before the coffin with Raisa Gorbachev’s body at Russia’s Culture Fund in Moscow Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1999. Raisa Gorbachev died Monday at age 67 in Muenster, Germany, where she had been treated for leukemia for two months. Right in the background is prominent Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov. When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery, he will once again be next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was unprecedented for a Soviet leader. Gorbachev’s very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)