Description: The President's Crown of ThornsBy Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 1998 first edition Vagrius (Moscow, Russia), 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches tall paperbound, 239 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing, creasing and edgewear to covers. Inscription and signature, dated in year of issue, on blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, apart from a couple of creased page tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. The autobiography of Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (b. 1962), a Russian businessman and politician who was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and was president of FIDE, the international governing body for the game of chess, from 1995 to 2018. He has also been in the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas. Chapter titles in this autobiography include 'Without Me the People Are Incomplete' (a quote from a short story by Andrei Platonov), 'I Become a Millionaire' and 'It Only Takes Two Weeks to Have a Man Killed' - the latter being about the problems with rising crime in some parts of Russia.
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Book Title: The President's Crown of Thorns
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Topic: Autobiography
Format: paperbound
Features: 1st Edition
Author: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Publication Year: 1998
Language: English
Publisher: Vagrius, Moscow
Genre: Chess
