Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is greeted by the Queen at the entrance to Windsor Castle (PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)The death of Mikhail Gorbachev marks the end of an era and comes at a time of renewed tensions between East and West.
When he acceded to power in the then Soviet Union, the superpower was at loggerheads with the West and branded by then US president Ronald Reagan as the Evil Empire.
