What's in a Face? (Illyin-Genevsky)

I knew of his win against Capablanca in Moscow, 1925, in a game where he sacrificed his Queen....

and then, the next day, Lasker sacrifices his Queen against him in the opening, and wins!

I like his face...there is a soulfulness in it that draws me in.....I can tell he was a good person, no details needed.

https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/live-by-the-sword-die-by-the-sword

I am drawn to him....lately also because of Simaginfan's blog post about him:

https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/ilyin-genevsky-the-lost-memory-story

...and through this blog by Simaginfan I learn that he wrote a book...."Notes of a Soviet Master", in which he talks about his life, about his struggle with shell shock from WWI (now we call it PTSD), and how he had to learn to play chess all over again....

So I order his book, which comes with a collection of selected games by him....

....and I decide to look at his games in chessgames.com.....

and there I learn that he died in a Nazi bombing raid in 1941, and I think, wow, he was taken too early!

To make a long story short, I start looking through some of his games, trying to find one that will catch my eye. and here it is!

This game is a powerful win against Romanovsky, who was quite a strong Master ( in my estimation, a GM).

                                                 Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky
                                                               (1892-1964)