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Title: Boris Petrovich Lopatin papers
Date (inclusive): 1909-1943
Collection Number: 2018C12
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.7 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Lopatin, Boris Petrovich, b. 1876
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2017.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Boris Petrovich Lopatin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Russian journalist, subsequently émigré in the United States.
Biographical Chronology
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)
|
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Journalists
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World politics -- 1900-1945