Yevgeni Nikolaevich Somow

Evgeny Nikolayevich Somow (Russian Евгений Николаевич Сомов; * 15 April 1910 in Moscow; † July 22, 1944 in Kazan) was a Russian chess composer. In the early 1930s, he took the double somov-Nassimovich.

Somow wrote about one hundred chess studies from 1926 on.

Somow was the son of the author Nikolai Fyodorovich Nassimovich, who wrote under the pseudonym Chuzhak (Russian for foreigners), and Bolshevikin Nina Ivanovna Somowa. Somow's brother Michail died already at the age of ten in the time of the Russian Civil War.

Somow worked as a proofreader. In the 1940s, he worked in the Dukat cigarette factory in Moscow, where he was arrested on 28 February 1943. On May 19, 1943, Somow was sent to a psychiatric hospital in the Tatarstan capital of Kazan for "anti-Soviet and counterrevolutionary propaganda and agitation" under Article 58.10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, in which he died on 22 July 1944 according to a Tatarstan memorial book. His works have been preserved and have not been eradicated from the literature, as usual practice in the case of those who were convicted under Article 58. Historians nevertheless assume that Somow became a victim of Stalinist repression. Rehabilitation did not take place by 2015. Single Sign-On and Source Edit Source Weblinks Edit sourcetext

wiki