Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record
- ID: 428
- Surname: Fleet
- Forename and paternity: Bertie Hayton
- Фамилия: Флит
- Имя и отчество: Берти Хэйтон
- S: m
- Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1872-02-10
- Date of death // Дата смерти: 1942-02-14
- Occupation // Профессия: Book store owner
- Obituary // Некролог: ST 1942-02-18
- Notes // Примечания: “A Briton who knew Russia better than some Russians, the 74-year-old local resident who was the childhood friend of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, died suddenly, leaving behind him wife Natalia Andreevna, son Edwin and a book store and news agency, remnants of a vast fortune lost in the Russian revolution. Mr Fleet was an Englishman, yet he loved Russian more than any country in the world, calling his homeland. His early friendship with Czar Nicholas inscribed his name into books of historical value as he was the only Englishman to have known the Russian Czar as a child playing in Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg. Born in Russia in 1868, the late Mr Fleet stayed back when his parents returned to England. He spent ten years in Nikolaevsk in Siberia, where he amassed a large fortune. With the revolution breaking out, he left for Harbin where he resided until a few years ago. There he acted as a correspondent for London newspapers and operating a news agency, a book store selling magazines and books of pro-Soviet leaning, and the newspaper Harbin Observer. Arriving in Shanghai Mr Fleet opened a bookstore on Avenue Joffre and organized Fleet News Agency.”