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Died. Efim Dmitrievich Bogolyubov, 64, Russian-born German national chess champion; of a heart attack; in Triberg, Germany. Beefy Bogolyubov kept chess enthusiasts the world over in seemingly endless anxiety in 1929 when he took on Dr. Aleksandr Alekhin of Paris in a 25-game world championship match, played in Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam-and lost...
Died. Max Werner (real name: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Schifrin), 49, Russian-born military commentator* (Military Strength of the Powers, 1939; Attack Can Win in 1943); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Werner fled successively from the Ukraine to Germany to France to the U.S. (in 1940), wrote a dogmatic column that ran in some 90 U.S. newspapers, ranging from New York's leftist Compass to the Kansas City Star...
Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...