performed them with his family at the head of the honorary corolla, the first and only president of the ussr was escorted with slavic honors on the red state awards among them and the highest order of russia apostle andrew the first-called next to the coffin. the closest. gorbachev left a daughter, irina, and two granddaughters, the younger anastasia all the time held her mother’s hand, not solemn words, not pathetic speeches. people, silently, passed by the coffin, if they lingered, then for a second, to bow at the pillared hall of the house. union in people began to gather long before the start of the farewell ceremony. in this queue are representatives of different generations, here are older people who remember the time well, when gorbachev and a lot of young people were in power. moreover, many came here to moscow from different regions of the country. i remember that when i was a little boy i watched the evening news, then still the secretary general and the first president of the country, as a very active and active person, who sometimes, perhaps, made a not very popular decision, nevertheless. this is a person, epoch-making,