Genrikh Genrikhovich Schiller (Shillerov) was a native of Saratov. He attended the University of Dorpat (Tartu), and later worked as a German teacher. Shillerov moved to Tyumen Oblast in the East Urals, where he became chess champion of the cities of Tyumen and Toblosk on multiple occasions.1 He participated in the 1st Siberian Championship in Tomsk 1921, where he shared equal 9th-10th with V Shmelev . This was a tough field, featuring most of the strongest Siberian players including the top finishers Mikhail Tronov , Khrisogon Iustinovich Kholodkevich , Pavel Komarov and Boris Mazan .2 In May 1937 Shillerov placed 9th of 16 players at the Crimean championship in Kerch.3
1Ramil Mukhometzyanov, "The First Chess Olympiad in Siberia" Chess club NS. Issue No. 14 (1261) https://sibscana.com/new/_shahmatni...
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Tyumen was also modestly represented. For a long time, the chess center of the province was Tobolsk, where the famous pre-revolutionary chess player Genrikh Genrikhovich Shiller lived, but after Tyumen became the capital, chess life also migrated here. Under Vsevobuch, a chess club was organized, and soon the provincial championship took place, in which the Shillerovs' father and son, Heinrich and Roman, won. It would be very interesting if both of them took part in the Olympiad. But only the elder played, and not very well. The fate of this family turned out to be very tragic. Genrikh Genrikhovich himself died in 1926, but his son Roman lived in the Crimea in subsequent years, where he became the champion of Simferopol more than once. In 1937, he was repressed (in 1939, rehabilitated), like his younger brother Yevgeny (who was shot in 1938) who lived in Novosibirsk, who, apparently, was also a chess player.
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