also Ilyin-Genevsky; died in the WWII German seige of Leningrad (other sources say that he was arrested by the Soviet secret police during the purges and died in prison)
Soviet chess master and organizer, one of founders of the Soviet chess school, an Old-Guard Bolshevik cadre (Zhenevsky, "the Genevan"), a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat. He played in nine of the first ten USSR Chess Championships, 1920-37.
Soviet chess master and organizer, one of founders of the Soviet chess school, an Old-Guard Bolshevik cadre (Zhenevsky, "the Genevan"), a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat. He played in nine of the first ten USSR Chess Championships, 1920-37.
also Ilyin-Genevsky; died in the WWII German seige of Leningrad (other sources say that he was arrested by the Soviet secret police during the purges and died in prison)
Soviet chess master and organizer, one of founders of the Soviet chess school, an Old-Guard Bolshevik cadre (Zhenevsky, "the Genevan"), a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat. He played in nine of the first ten USSR Chess Championships, 1920-37.
Soviet chess master and organizer, one of founders of the Soviet chess school, an Old-Guard Bolshevik cadre (Zhenevsky, "the Genevan"), a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat. He played in nine of the first ten USSR Chess Championships, 1920-37.
Gravesite Details
Oxford Companion to Chess, Hooper & Whyld; ChessGames.com
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