Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 1954
  • Surname: Vinokooroff (née Chaigina)
  • Forename and paternity: Agnia Ivanovna
  • Фамилия: Винокурова
  • Имя и отчество: Агния Ивановна
  • S: f
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1887-02-03
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1905-05-06
  • Burial place // Место захоронения: Fake grave
  • Notes // Примечания: Agnia Ivanovna Chaigina was born in Tomsk region, in the family of the merchant Ivan Andreevich Chaigin. Her husband Rodion (Irodion) Adrianovich Vinokooroff, b. 12 April 1873 in Semipalatinsk, was from a wealthy family of peasant entrepreneurs, based in Altai and Novonikolaevsk. In October 1919, Rodion and Agnia Vinokooroff with small children left Russia via Vladivostok and traveled to Japan. In 1921, the family settled in Harbin, where Rodion and his brother Vasily transferred their Siberian business, A. I. Vinokooroff & Sons. In China, the company specialized in furs, shoes and rubber goods, expanding to Peking and Shanghai. In the 1950s, having outlived his wife, Rodion Vinokooroff repatriated to the USSR; he lived to be 95 and died in 1968. Son Anatoly Vinokouroff, b. 1908, died in China in 1943. Daughter Mrs Valentina Molostvoff, b. 1910 in Siberia. Daughter Lydia Vinokouroff, b. 1917 in Kamen, Altai, was a successful fashion designer and boutique owner in Shanghai; later she moved to France and continued her fashion career there. Son Gennady Vinokouroff, b. 1913 in Kamen, worked as a chauffeur and mechanic in Shanghai, then repatriated to USSR and settled in Rostov-on-Don. Fake grave exists at Song Qingling Memorial Park.