Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record
- ID: 745
- Surname: Kolotinsky
- Forename and paternity: Vera Victorovna
- Фамилия: Колотинская
- Имя и отчество: Вера Викторовна
- S: f
- Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1906-07-05
- Date of death // Дата смерти: 1943-03-25
- Occupation // Профессия: Dentist
- Notes // Примечания: Originally from Ekaterinburg, Mrs Kolotinsky was a common-law wife of 15 years of Anatoly Iosifovich Beerbrayer, jeweler, b. 1898. ERC 60460. Shanghai Police investigated her death as suspicious. “Attractive, well-educated daughter of a late officer of the Russian Imperial Army arrived in Shanghai from Harbin in 1930. She resided at Medhurst Apartments in her own flat No. 1B; besides this she owned a boarding house at 147 Avenue Haig. She owned many diamonds of high value and other precious stones, received as gifts from Beerbrayer, as well as a considerable sum of USA banknotes. For the last few months before her death, Mrs Kolotinsky was cohabiting with Dr S. Hocks, a lecturer at the Soviet Citizens’ Club. In her apartment, she also kept her father’s former butler M. Froloff, who took care of her during her occasional periods of excessive drinking. At the time of her death, he was absent, sent by Beerbrayer to Tientsin to smuggle some restricted goods. Having indulged in much drinking, Mrs Kolotinsky appears to have died in her sleep. That she was buried without a concrete carcass was also deemed suspicious. After her death, only $20,000 worth of jewelry was found, and no banknotes. In her will, Mrs Kolotinsky bequeathed part of her estate to her keeper Froloff and the Russian Orthodox Hospital, and intended to give away more, so in the end the police suspected that her two husbands conspired to drug her and rob her.” Profiled in ZH.