Fizkultura i Sport, Moskva 1954, in Russian language, hardcover, 224 pp,300 grams, condition:good+, no inscriptions except the dedication to "comrade Rusakov V.A., Member of the chess team of the Giprotsneftestroy Institute which take first place in the championship of the Neftyanik Voluntary Sports Society in Leningrad in 1955. Signature of the chairman Angreev"  (see photo 2),  some photos, 51 annotated games.

Pyotr Arsenyevich Romanovsky (1892 –1964) was a Russian and Soviet chess player and author. He won the Soviet Championship in 1923 and, jointly, 1927.

Romanovsky participated in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament (the 19th DSB Congress), begun on 20 July and stopped on 1 August, when World War I broke out. He was tied for second–fourth places in the Hauptturnier B event. After the declaration of war by the German Empire on the Russian Empire, eleven Russian players (Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Bohatyrchuk, Flamberg, Koppelman, Maliutin, Rabinovich, Romanovsky, Saburov, Selezniev, Vainshtein) were interned in Rastatt, Germany. On September 14, 17, and 29, 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bohatyrchuk, Saburov, and Koppelman) were freed and allowed to return home via Switzerland. As an internee, he played in three tournaments. After being released from internment by the Red Cross in spring 1915, due to his poor health (heart illness), he returned to Petrograd. When Romanovsky returned to Russia, he immediately helped raise money to aid the Russian chess players who were still interned in Germany by giving a simultaneous exhibition at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute.

During the worst period of the Siege of Leningrad in winter of 1941–42, a rescue party reached his home. They found Romanovsky half-conscious from starvation and cold. The rest of his family had frozen to death. All the furniture in the house had been used for firewood. A chess manuscript which had been in preparation by Romanovsky was also lost at this time. Upon his recovery, Romanovsky found strength to live on, started a new family and continued to work tirelessly to promote chess and train chess players.