Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky

Soviet chess player (1894–1941).

Born November 28th, 1894 in Saint Petersburg.

Died September 3rd, 1941 at 46 years old in Novaya Ladoga.

Occupations
chess player, diplomat, historian, journalist, politician, writer

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson