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Originally Posted by Miriling
Subject: Chessdon goes Zero for Zero for Ten!
On 24 October 2004 (Sam Sloan)
Date: 10/24/04 3:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:58:44 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:
Madame Rossolimo, who outlived him and continued to operate
Rossiolimos Chess studio after he died, told me his Russian name. He
was a chess master at an early age and won some major tournaments
under his Russian name. It might be possible to find these. She had
written a biography of him and an autobiography of herself which she
read to me from time to time. She was looking for a publisher but it
needed to be translated into English. She was from Vladavostok. Her
biography seemed interesting. I wonder if it just got thrown out after
she died, or if it still exists somewhere.
Sam Sloan
I just looked up Madame Vera Rossolimo. She died on 9 June 1995. Her
Social Security Number was 080-28-6812
You can look it up at
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
Sam Sloan
Madame Rossolimo, who died on 9 June 1995, had a maiden name of Boudakovitch.
She and Nicholas had one son, Alexander, who lives in Massachusetts. Dr.
Alexander N. Rossolimo, who is 65 years old, is president of Strategy
Associates International. He is an expert on nuclear terrorism.
By the way, Nicholas Rossolimo's father was Spiridon Rossolimo and his mother
was Xenia N. Skugarevsky. His paternal grandfather was Nicholas Rossolimo.
I think if one were to contact Dr. Alexander Rossolimo, c/o Strategy Associates
International in Massachusetts, one might find out for sure if his father's
real last name something other than Rossolimo. All signs still point to
Rossolimo being his real last name.
George Mirijanian
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My father's name at birth in 1910 was (in Russian) Nikolai Spiridonovich Rossolimo. The middle patronymic comes from his father Spiridon N. Rossolimo. Born in Kiev in 1910, my father moved to Moscow in the early 1920s with his mother, where she was accused of being a “polyglot” and thrown into a Soviet jail for a year. A highly-educated woman, she spoke four languages – Russian, English, German and French – nearly perfectly. She had been a war correspondent in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, writing for Russian and English newspapers. Following her release from prison, she worked for a major Soviet book publisher in Moscow. During that period, my father had a number of chess studies published under his name Nikolai Rossolimo, and told me he became junior chess champion of Moscow. My father and his mother emigrated to France in 1929. Interestingly, my father had an excellent ear for languages. Although he arrived in Paris at age 19 not knowing any French, he learned to speak the language almost like a native. It was only when I was about ten that I began noticing a very slight accent in his French. Many people thought he was a French-speaking Belgian. However, much later, after living in the U.S. for 10 years, his French took on a noticeable Russian accent, perhaps from lack of practice in the language.