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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

    Access

    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.

    Use

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

    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