Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 311
  • Surname: Diakonova
  • Forename and paternity: Olga
  • Фамилия: Дьяконова
  • Имя и отчество: Ольга
  • S: f
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1905 (circa)
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1935-01-13
  • Occupation // Профессия: Cabaret dancer
  • Details of death // Детали смерти: Suicide by poison
  • Obituary // Некролог: TCP 1935-01-14, 15, 01-24; ST 1935-01-14; NCDN 1935-01-14; NCH 1935-01-16
  • NRS // НРС: 174
  • Notes // Примечания: In Shanghai 4 years. Worked in a cabaret on Rue Chu Pao San. Found in her attic room, above Western Bakery, 50A Great Western Road, dressed in a kimono. Left letter to mother in Harbin, was “tired of life.” The British soldier, Private P. Coffey, who came to visit her and became the first to discover the body – “with a distorted expression on her face, having apparently suffered great pain prior to her death” – later went missing from his barracks for a week.