Soviet chess grandmaster.
Born October 8th, 1908 in Saint Petersburg.
Died March 11th, 1962 at 53 years old in Moscow.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel