Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record

  • ID: 677
  • Surname: Karpoff
  • Forename and paternity: Maxim Karpovich
  • Фамилия: Карпов
  • Имя и отчество: Максим Карпович
  • S: m
  • Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1902 circa
  • Date of death // Дата смерти: 1938-06-10
  • Occupation // Профессия: Bodyguard of Yu Chueh-sen
  • Details of death // Детали смерти: Shot while on duty
  • Burial place // Место захоронения: Hungjao Road
  • Obituary // Некролог: NCH 1938-06-15; ST 1938-06-11; TCP 1938-06-11
  • NRS // НРС: 221
  • Notes // Примечания: Shot by hired assassins targeting his employer, Yu Chueh-sen. Thirty shots were fired on the Bund, in the vicinity of Jinkee Road entrance of the Cathay Hotel; two people died as a result – Karpoff and one Chinese assassin. Yu himself, his Chinese driver and another Russian bodyguard were wounded. “The deceased was a single man 36 years of age and had no family in Shanghai.”