He died in Moscow while putting together a collection of his best games, which his friends completed for publication in 1964, under the title Izbrannye Partii Ragozina (Ragozin's Selected Games).
The passage describes the death of a person who was compiling a collection of his best games and then publishing it posthumously under the title "Izbrannye Partii Ragozina" (Ragozin's Selected Games).