Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record
- ID: 47
- Surname: Arnoldov
- Forename and paternity: Lev Valentinovich
- Фамилия: Арнольдов
- Имя и отчество: Лев Валентинович
- S: m
- Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1894-06-23
- Date of death // Дата смерти: 1957-10-20
- Occupation // Профессия: Journalist, editor
- Details of death // Детали смерти: Died of heart attack
- Burial place // Место захоронения: Cremation
- Obituary // Некролог: SCMP 1957-11-05
- Notes // Примечания: A native of Vologda, Arnoldov was a son of a forestry inspector. Having spent his childhood in various Siberian cities, he was sent to study in Berlin, Paris and Toulouse. Upon his return in 1916, he studied medicine and law in Tomsk but the advance of the Bolsheviks pushed him to Russia’s east, where he taught and worked in various newspapers in Omsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. In 1919 he and his mother moved to Harbin. Having arrived in Shanghai in 1925, he became one of the founders of Shanghai Zaria, the largest Russian daily. Some of his essays he signed Victor Serbsky and P. Solsky. Arnoldov authored three books: The Country of the White Sun: Essays on China (1933) and China As It Is (1934), Life and Revolution (1935). Member of Shanghai Rotary Club and a trustee of the Foreign YMCA. After 1949, having failed to escape from Communist China, Arnoldov was reduced to poverty and lived off occasional teaching jobs. He single-handedly cared for his disabled mother and outlived her only by a few months.