General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his wife Raisa Gorbachyova before their meeting with Russian painter and prominent Indian public figure Svetoslav Roerich and his wife Devika Rani-Roerich at the Moscow Kremlin. The meeting took place to mark the establishment of the Soviet Roerich Foundation.