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Earlier this month I blogged on the rather obscure White Russian journal based in Shanghai and funded out of Paris called Russkiye Zapiski (Russian Annals). My thanks to a Russian speaking China Rhyming reader who pointed me to an online archive of selected issues of the journal….click here
I know very little about this publication from 1930s/1940s Shanghai – Russkiye Zapiski, or Russian Annals. This letterhead is from 1940 and shows the publication as bi-monthly and headquartered on the rue du Roi Albert, now Shanxi Road South. I believe the publication was established around 1937 and had links with White Russian emigre groups in Paris (noting that it was based in the French Concession in Shanghai). Things are slightly confused due to spellings and translations – it appears in records as Russkie and also as Russian Notes as well as Annals. The publication appears to have been founded in Shanghai though perhaps funded by the Russian emigre community in France. And that’s all I know I’m afraid.
