Once Upon a Birthday

From a video interview published on July 24, 2020: Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, the daughter of 6th FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, celebrates her 22nd birthday by initiating a fundraiser for MOVEMENT UP, a charity aimed at helping children with disabilities.

The Alien Next Door

Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, the beloved daughter of 6th FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, is not only a beautiful mind, who graduated from the Lomonosov Private School with a Gold Medal of Merit, and then successfully carried out diplomatic studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), but, in her time off, she does not disdain the limelight of the stage and the flashes of the photographers. And so there she was, in the spring of 2017, flaunting an assortment of graduation outfits provided by Bosco di Ciliegi, Russia’s largest multi-brand luxury retail chain. Photos: PE✪PLETALK.RU.

Sight and Sound

Within sight and sound of the Solaris Ocean Dmitry Sokolov conducted a biographical interview with 6th FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov for Собеседник (Interlocutor), No. 6 (1742), February 20–26, 2019, pp. 12–13. The full English translation of the interview, entitled “Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: I am independent. I am here today, in London tomorrow”, is available online on Ilyumzhinov’s website. In one of the photographs accompanying the press article, Ilyumzhinov is portrayed along with his beloved daughter Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, who on occasion wore a long princess style dress with a train. The photo is credited to Olga Zinovskaya of Russian News Agency TASS.

Back to Before

He Is Back is a Hollywood film weaved around martial arts directed by Chitah Yajnesh Shetty, and starred by Abb Li (popularly known as Afghan Bruce Lee) and Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova (pictured above in orange dress, and below), who’s no one else but 7th FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov’s beloved daughter. The movie was sumptuously launched on last year’s summer at Armani Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the presence of honourable guests such as Her Royal Excellency of Thailand Mom Luang Rajadarasri Jayankura, Ilyumzhinov himself (pictured below, standing fourth from the left), and Prince Firooz Alexander Sefre, Member of Royal Institute of British Architects from England. Photos: mangalorean.com.

Limelight

Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, the daughter of 7th FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, covering MGIMO Journal #3, 2017.

Leningrad Blockade

Saint Petersburg, Russia: Tanks from the World War II are displayed in Dvortsovaya Square (Дворцо́вая пло́щадь). Photo: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP.

On the same day (June 22, 2016), in the same city, FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov’s daughter, Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova (centre), was celebrating her 18th birthday with her father at a sumptuous party in the Olympia Palace. Photo: ecogazeta.ru.

The Dance of Chance

Today in Tbilisi. Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova. Caption and photo: Evgeny Anatolyevich Surov.

When Evgeny Anatolyevich Surov was told that this girl was named Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, he couldn’t believe his ears. He finally found the courage to ask her about it, and yes, she was just Alina Kirsanovna Ilyumzhinova, FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov’s daughter. “Just after she told me who she was, however”, says Surov, “the information itself was not so important anymore. I was amazed and charmed by her modesty and intelligence, which told me much about her parents, too”.