08.01.2021

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov meets with the descendants of Pushkin and Prince Tundutov

On January 6, first President of Kalmykia, sixth President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with representatives of two great dynasties Alexander Alexandrovich and Serge Grevenits. They are descendants of A.S. Pushkin and the famous Kalmyk princely families of the Tundutovs, Balzanovs and Onkorovs. The interweaving of the destinies of Russian and Kalmyk history. Serge Grevenitz is a descendant of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin on his paternal side, since his father - Alexander Alexandrovich - is a descendant of the poet's youngest daughter Natalia. On the maternal side, Serge belongs to the Kalmyk aristocracy. His mother, Marina Nikolaevna, is the daughter of Nikolai Tundutov and Alexandra Balzanova.

Recall that in the spring of 2020 Baron Serge suffered a "Kalmyk spring" because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In March, he arrived from Paris to Elista, and lived there from March to July. Serge Grevenitz was greeted with love, and realized that there was no need to leave, that the “Kalmyk spring” should turn into summer, autumn and winter.