S.F. Lebedev lived in
Saint Petersburg before
World War I, during and after the war (Petrograd, Leningrad). He took 4th at Moscow 1899 (the 1st
All-Russian Masters' Tournament,
Mikhail Chigorin won), took 3rd at St. Petersburg 1900 (Chigorin and
Alexander Levin won), tied for 8–10th at Moscow 1900/01 (the 2nd RUS-ch won by Chigorin), thrice won, jointly with
Grigory Helbach (1), ahead of Abkin (2), and ahead of
Emmanuel Schiffers (3) in St. Petersburg in 1901, and tied for 9–10th in the
Kiev 1903 chess tournament (the 3rd RUS-ch, Chigorin won). He shared 2nd with
Simon Alapin, behind
Sergey von Freymann, in 1907, won (
Quadrangular) in 1908, tied for 7–8th (All-Russian Amateur Tournament,
Alexander Alekhine won) in 1909, tied for 1st–3rd with Freymann and
Grigory Levenfish in 1910, took 15th (the 8th All-Russian Masters' Tournament (RUS-ch), Alekhine and
Aron Nimzowitsch won) in 1913/14, all played in St. Petersburg. After the war he tied for 11–13th at Petrograd 1923 (the 2nd
USSR Chess Championship,
Peter Romanovsky won). == References ==