Boris Petrovich Lopatin papers, 1909-1943

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Summary

Creators:
Lopatin, Boris Petrovich, b. 1876
Abstract:
Writings, notes, diaries, biographical data, and printed matter, relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia, Russian émigré affairs, and world politics in the interwar period.
Extent:
4 manuscript boxes (1.7 Linear Feet)
Language:
In Russian and English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Boris Petrovich Lopatin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers of Boris Petrovich Lopatin, consisting of biographical documents, correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs and printed matter, reflect life in pre-revolutionary Russia, the turmoil of revolution and civil war, and the subsequent lives of Russians who found themselves immigrants in the United States.

Lopatin had a great deal of experience as a newspaper correspondent and editor before the 1917 Russian Revolution, during the subsequent civil war, and attempted to continue his journalistic career in the United States. His writings reflect his socialist political sympathies and devote much attention to growing tensions in Europe and East Asia in the 1930s, the political and economic developments in the Soviet Union, and the start of World War II.

Biographical / historical:

Russian journalist, subsequently émigré in the United States.

Date Event
1876 April 17
Born, Lomga, Poland, Russian Empire
1910 May 15
Graduated
1905
Participated in the Russo-Japanese War as an artillery officer
1909
Married Agata Sergeevna
1912
War correspondent for the newspaper Den' during the Balkan War
1914-1917
Called to arms as a captain, served on the Galician and Hungarian fronts, wounded, promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, resigned at the outbreak of the 1917 revolution
1915 August 29
Birth of son Oleg in Petrograd
1918
Founded and edited the Vladivostok newspapers Moia gazeta and Ekho
1919 July
Ekho closed and Lopatin arrested
1921 August
Reopened Ekho newspaper
1922
Moved to Harbin, China, and Japan
1923 24 February
Arrived in San Francisco with wife and son
1923 March 9 - June
Editor of Russkaia zhizn' newspaper
1923 June 17
Moved to Berkeley
1932
Led an art class for children
1933-1934
Art director for the Hollywood Playhouse
1935
Taught art and interior decorating at Fremont High School
1943 May 27
Died, Los Angeles, California
1906-1914
Began work as a professional newspaperman and edited newspapers Rus" (St. Petersburg), Russkoe slovo (Moscow), and Den' (St. Petersburg)
Acquisition information:
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2017.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Boris Petrovich Lopatin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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