Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record
- ID: 716
- Surname: Kleimenow
- Forename and paternity: Constantine Wasillievich
- Фамилия: Клейменов
- Имя и отчество: Константин Васильевич
- S: m
- Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1856-09-18
- Date of death // Дата смерти: 1910-10-18
- Occupation // Профессия: Consul General of the Russian Empire
- Details of death // Детали смерти: Died of complications after appendicitis
- Obituary // Некролог: NCH 1910-11-04
- NRS // НРС: 225
- Notes // Примечания: Prior to his appointments in China, Kleimenow had been an officer in the Russian Army and fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Then he joined Foreign Office and worked in the Russian Legation in Peking as a secretary, eventually becoming Chargé d’Affaires. In 1900 he took the post of Consul General in Shanghai, succeeding in this position N. Laptew, with General Dessino as the Military Agent. Kleimenow was praised for his timely rescue actions for the refugees of the Russo-Japanese War, who fled to Shanghai in 1904–1905. By 1910, aged 55, Kleimenow was the most senior consul in Shanghai. He was known to be of “amiable disposition” and much liked in multinational circles. “He was a pianist of merit and spent much of his leisure time with his favorite instrument.” Before he died, he had been ill for three months, first with dysentery and then with appendicitis, and the complications after the operation at the General Hospital led to his death. The Requiem Mass took place in the Russian Church of the Epiphany, in North Honan Road, conducted by Father Innocenty Figurovsky and the church choir; then the cortege passed through the city to the Bubbling Well Cemetery. Kleimenow’s last resting place was near the monument in the memory of the Port Arthur victims who died in Shanghai.