Andrey Alexandrovich Asharin (Andreas Ascharin; June 12 (June 24 ), 1843 , Pernov - December 12 ( December 24 ), 1896 , Riga ) - Russian chess player and chess writer. Organizer and leader of the Riga Chess Society (1890). The author of many humorous chess stories and aphorisms published in 1894 in Riga as a separate book (Schach-Humoresken).
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
He studied at the gymnasium (1858-1864) and at the University of Dorpat . He became interested in chess as a schoolboy, playing with his chess teacher F. Amelung and his classmate Klemenets. After graduating from university, he became a candidate of rights (1874 [2] ) [3] moved to St. Petersburg , where he worked as a journalist and successfully played with the strongest chess players of the capital: S. Alapin , M. Chigorin , E. Schiffers , I. Shumov . Member of the St. Petersburg tournament (1878/79) - 6th place. In 1878 he printed a book of his poems.
He lived in Riga since 1879: on January 1, he was appointed a German teacher at the Alexander Gymnasium ; then he also taught at the Lomonosov gymnasium . Director of the Alexander Gymnasium E. V. Belyavsky called Asharin “one of the most educated people in the region” [4] .
He printed a whole series of "German Grammar for Russian Secondary Educational Institutions" (1887); He translated poems by Pushkin , Lermontov , Fet , Maykov , the novel by Gogol , Melnikov-Pechersky and other Russian writers into German.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1044287187 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ According to other sources - 1876.
- ↑ The list of university students is missing
- ↑ Bartele T. M. Riga School of Alexander (1868–1914) - an answer to the challenges of the times // Russia and Latvia in the stream of history. 2nd half of the 19th - 1st half of the 20th century - M .: IVI RAS, 2015 .-- 336 p. - S. 17. - ISBN 978-5-94067-448-1 .
Literature
- Chess Dictionary / Ch. ed. L. Ya. Abramov ; comp. G.M. Geyler . - M .: Physical education and sport , 1964. - S. 191. - 120,000 copies.
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - S. 24. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Riga Alexander School. A historical outline of the state of the gymnasium from 1868 to 1893. / Comp. O. Milevsky. - Riga: tipolithography of Ernst Plates, 1893. - S. 145.