Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 1468
  • Surname: Ryabine
  • Forename and paternity: Jacque (Jack) Paul
  • Фамилия: Рябин
  • Имя и отчество: Яков Павлович
  • S: m
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1887-09-25
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1935-03-06
  • Occupation // Профессия: Doctor
  • Details of death // Детали смерти: Suicide by injecting strichnine
  • Burial place // Место захоронения: Hungjao Road
  • Obituary // Некролог: SZ 1935-03-07; NCH 1935-03-13; TCP 1935-03-07 (bio)
  • NRS // НРС: 370
  • Notes // Примечания: Ryabine was born in Belgrade and graduated from Kazan University in 1912. He participated in the Civil War in Siberia, in Ataman Semenoff’s army. He arrived in Shanghai in 1922 and worked at the Health Department of the French Concession until 1930; then he resigned and started a private practice. He was Chairman of the Yugoslavian Community. His first wife, Valentina Vladimirovna Kutuzoff, b. 1895, formed nurse in the Civil War, died in 1933. Ryabine lived at Dubail Apartments, 181 Avenue Dubail with his second wife, Alexandra Andreevna Voronin, b. 1905 in Sevastopol, and three-year-old son Arseny, b. 1930. (SMP-18 File) It was said the wife forced Ryabine into an expensive lifestyle, resulting in his debts. “Obsessed by his inability to pay his debts and support his family, Dr Jack Paul Ryabine, 48-year-old Yugoslavian medical practitioner, committed suicide yesterday morning by injecting strychnine into his right arm and cutting the artery just below the elbow. The tragedy was enacted in his new office, on the second floor, at 1543 Bubbling Well Road.” “Apart from being in dire financial straits, Dr Ryabine had been greatly worried by the loss of the use of his left eye, and had threatened on a number of occasions to take his life. Last year he threw himself under a tram, but by a miracle was only slightly injured. He left notes on the table, one stating that ‘No one is to be blamed for my suicide’ and the other addressed to the Orthodox Church, saying ‘Forgive me, and kindly pray for me.’” Ryabine’s wife and their close friends Mr and Mrs Emanoff were searching for him since the night before and discovered him in his office, lying fully dressed on a daybed with a pool of blood on the floor. He was rushed to the Country Hospital, where he died.