And surprize surprize! What particular composition did Kirsan Ilyumzhinov produce? He wrote the continuation of the novel "Eugene Onegin" ... In verse ... As Ilyumzhinov himself told me in a telephone conversation, he wrote this continuation within two days. The organizers of the Olympiads were amazed...

The text of the continuation of the legendary Pushkin novel took more than 12 sheets.  In a nutshell, Yevgeny Onegin takes part in the Decembrist uprising, then he manages to escape to France, where he makes his state career as a French citizen. Tatyana Larina marries an old general. Onegin tries to meet her when he arrives in Russia from France with a state mission many years later. But whether this meeting took place, we may learn from Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s school notebook only... Well, or if Kirsan himself decides to tell about this in detail.
In a word, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s congratulation of on Pushkin’s birthday is not a banal, ritual action, but a much more subtle symbolic, spiritual thread, stretching today from distant 1979... “How whimsically the deck has been shuffled!”

Andrey Serenko