Together Again: Raisa, Nancy Keep It Cordial at Coffee Klatch : Tourists: After ending the 45-minute visit, Mrs. Gorbachev stops at a market and visits Fisherman’s Wharf.

The Earth did not split asunder. The skies did not open. Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan smiled at each other, sat in tan velvet armchairs in the same room, and that was that.

The fabled Raisa-Nancy hostilities, the “power glower” frost once pitched as the last and most trivial battle of the Cold War, was not in public evidence when the two women met in the course of their husbands’ reunion in the first event of Raisa Gorbachev’s day by the bay.

The traditional Russian welcome of bread and salt never made it on the menu. Instead, the standard American cordiality symbol, coffee, was served at the Soviet consul-general’s red-brick mansion in the Pacific Heights district.

“We get along fine,” said Nancy Reagan after their 45-minute chat. The two women walked out onto a balcony at the residence, where they briefly held hands. “I think there’s been a great misunderstanding about our relationship,” which began back when the two superpowers were “plowing new ground,” Nancy Reagan said.

The breakfast came on the heels of Raisa Gorbachev’s very public hand-holding love-fest with the genial Barbara Bush. The Monday horoscope for astrology believer Nancy Reagan advised, “Be willing to make changes.” Raisa Gorbachev’s--who has said, “Not me, sorry,” when it comes to astrology--noted, “Financial gain results from career, business activity,” a hopeful omen for this trade-seeking trip.

A late arrival Sunday and late start Monday disrupted Raisa Gorbachev’s plans to roll past the city’s temples of culture, including the opera and symphony hall and the city’s flagship of banking, the 52-story Bank of America building.

Instead, wearing the same gray suit and fuchsia blouse she wore to the Wellesley College commencement ceremonies on Friday, she made an unscheduled stop at a small market in the city’s Twin Peaks section. She noted that prices on many items, including a bottle of Soviet Stolichnaya vodka that she pulled from a shelf, were more expensive than at home.

Her entourage then whisked her to Fisherman’s Wharf, where she spoke briefly to a crowd that had gathered there before she boarded a cable car.

The first Russian ever to come to San Francisco showed up here in 1806, and that visit, too, was part business. Count Nikolai Rezanov came looking for supplies for the starving Russian colony at Sitka. The answer was no--it was illegal then to trade with non-Spanish-speaking nations. (On the other hand, when Rezanov wooed the 15-year-old daughter of the Presidio commandant, Concepcion Arguello, he got a si or da .)

The Gorbachevs may do better. All the meetings with power brokers may pay off for the trade-hungry Soviets. Raisa Gorbachev spent part of the day at Stanford University with her husband, familiar turf for a doctor of philosophy who was a university lecturer until her husband became the Soviet leader in 1985.

A Friends of Raisa Gorbachev group, high-powered business and academic figures, was set to have tea with Mrs. Gorbachev and invite her back for a longer stay.

“A lot of her thinking and philosophy have contributed to some of the changes in the Soviet Union,” said co-chairwoman Ingrid Hills. To call theirs a “fan club would be sort of belittling,” Hills added.

In the face of criticism that their group, which includes the Chevron chairman and the presidents of all four Bay Area universities, is too exclusive, Hills said they want to “broaden the group to include people from all walks of life, all ethnic backgrounds.”

The members are already “sticking their necks out” by being Gorbachev boosters “at a time when there’s a lot of turmoil about the Soviet Union,” she asserted.

But “we received strict instructions not to discuss philosophy or business but just the logistics of her return visit,” Hills said.

San Franciscans love anyone who loves their city, and the feeling was obviously mutual.