Edouard Was Born in 1877 We Think in Georgia?
Doctor EdouardLuboff
Edouard was born in 1877 – we think in Georgia?
Edouard states in a piece in the Daily Mail that he knew Stalin as a young man either as a student or maybe in the courts.
He became a Barrister at Law, presumably in Georgia?
He is reported as having been asenior member of the Russian Ministry of the Interior visiting to Siberia and Afghanistan.
States in a piece in the “Russian” publication that he was condemned to work in the mines in Siberia, and that he resisted both the Tsar and the Bolsheviks, it is likely that it was the Bolshevicks that sent him to Siberia. He mentions an intimate knowledge of Russia’s Jewry he also mentions having fought both the Tsarist regime and the Bolsheviks and been condemned to work in the mines in Siberia for what was probably a political offence.
1917/18 Said to have escaped from Siberia by hiding in a barrel ?!
Edouard – soon after arriving in England starts publishing a journal called the “Russian”.
1918 15th Oct “The Russian” starts publication of 43 weekly issuesarchived in two volumes at L/C, vol 1 from 15th Oct 1918 to 31st December 1918. The magazine is owned by The Russian Newspapers Ltd. The first address that he seems to trade from is 17, Southampton Street and in 1918 moves to Groschen Blds 12/13 Henrietta Street. As Editor, Edouard makes no references in the first year of the magazine to himself but does so increasingly in the last six months of its life.
1919 7th Jan to 24th Jul Vol 2 of “The Russian” to the last issue, on the last page it has a piece that is about his experience in Siberia which has (to be continued) which seems to indicate there were more issues but the L/C does not have them.
1919 Mar 4th Cartoon of Edouard entitled The Pacifier
Edouard, spends a lot of his early years in England as a political journalist and author - he writes and publishes a number of books on Russia, the Russian economy and attacking the Bolsheviks. Titles of these books are shown below
He also wrote regularly for the Daily Mail between 1926 and 1933 – many articles on Russia, life in Russia, the economy and trade – again a lot of them attacking the Bolsheviks – see list below
*1926 11th Feb DM “Russia’s Dismal Poverty”6 c/i
*1926 11th Feb DM Editorial review of “The Soviets”
*1926 22nd Feb DM Letter to Ed “A Lesson from Red Russia”
*1926 13th April DM Article 10 ci “Russia’s Diseased Children”
*1926 30th July DM Article 12 c/i “Struggle for Power in Moscow”
*1926 1st October DM Article 8c/i “Young Reds at Work”
*1927 March 29th DM Article “Radek’s hand in Shanghai”
*1927 March 29th DM Article “Red Year Book by Review”
*1927 May 9th DM Article “How Moscow trains plotters”
*1927 June 27th DM Article “How the Reds ruin Children”
*1927 Sept 8th DM Article “Red Murder Gang”
*1927 Sept 8th DM Article “Spy Mad”
*1927 Sept 14th DM Article “Judges and Hangman Too”
*1927 Dec 15th DM Article “Trotsky”
*1928 17th Jan DM (Unknown) 8.4
*1928 20th Feb DM “Tsar’s Wealth and Claimants”
*1928 22nd Feb DM Letter to Ed “A Lesson from Red Russia”
*1928 1st Mar DM “Hungary Crowds of Moscow”
*1928 13th Mar DM “Kabul”
+1928 13th April DM Article 11ci “Russia’s Diseased Children”
+1928 ? May DM Letter to Ed “A Vital Necessity”
*1928 10th May DM “On Afghan King’s Visit to Russia”
*1928 12th May DM “On Russian Leaders Depravity-Pravda Quoted”
+1928 31st May NZ Evening Post “Facing a Crisis” Quote
*1928 11th July DM “On Russian Justice Donets Trial Farce”
*1928 31st Aug DM “Elephant Racing in Afghanistan”
*1928 12th Sept DM “On Mrs. Pamer’s Exploration Exhibition and its Dangers”
*1928 2nd Oct DM “Revolt of Russia’s Youth”
*! 928 3rd Oct DM (Unknown) 11.2
*1928 6th Oct DM Beautiful Red Spies”
*1928 25th Oct NZ Evening Post “Elephant Racing” Syndicated
*1928 21st Dec DM “Reds Cannot Kill Christmas”
+1933 Feb 24th DM 24th Letter to Ed from 40 Elizabeth Street - nervous breakdown
*1933 May 17th DM “Glance at Russian Diplomacy”
*1933 May 25th DM “Red Russia’s 50,000,000 Capitalists”
*1933 April 18th DM “Soviet Judges and their Verdicts”
*1933 Mar 23rd DM “Stalin’s Sabotage Bogy”
*1933 Apr 11th DM “Taint of Politics in Soviet Justice”
1947Jul 30th Death Certificate aged 70 at 58 Warwick Gardens W14
From: peter matthews [mailto:
Sent: 09 December 2010 00:17
To: Mark Luboff
Subject: The Research
Good evening Mark,
I must apologise for dropping in unannounced but I was on a high with what we had found today and wanted to let you know. A small team of us went through over 1000 pages of text in the Russian magazine and the Land and Water magazine.There was little that came as a major entry but there were a number of phrases and sentences that coloured things in.
Edouard certainly seems to know the Jewish community well Such phrases as "from our intimate knowledge of Russia's Jewry" and "many loyal Jews in the National White Army" make me think that he was at least very close to the Jewish community. The few photocopies that I did order will take at least a week to be available as the libraryare very careful with the aging documents.
Something that I think that you will like is a full cartoon which I am sure of him in the 4th March 1919 entitledThe Pacifier. He is holding a copy of the Russian and obviously thinks he is making a contribution toAnglo Russian relations. There are several references toopponents to the Russian such as on p4 November 5th 1918 when he defends himself against an allegation that he is the mouthpiece of someone else. He says thatthe paper is owned by"The Russian Newspaper Ltd."It would be interesting to see who are the Directors of that company and their details. There is a piece in the Russian that describes a typical tea party of Russian émigrés, it does not mention him by name but it is not difficult to imagine him in the corner balancing a tea cup and holding forth on the Bolsheviks.
The pieces that appear in the Russian with his name or initials on it are few and far between. It is obviously his editorial policy to keep a low personal profile. There is one piece that appearsentitled Siberian Agriculture and another that is almost an aside ofa speech that he made in South Wales. It wasobviously a rowdy meeting with hecklers and he answers one of them by saying that" I fought against the Tsars regime and also against the Bolsheviks, as a result I was condemned to serve time in the mines in Siberia". That may not be the exact wording as we were overstaying our time at the library and were in the process of being thrown out. Never fear however as I have ordereda copy of the piece. This will now start me searching the South Wales newspapers for a fuller account. A most satisfying day.
You will get the copies as soon as they have been done.
Regards
Peter
Having completed my searches I called on Moscow born Katya Rogatchevskaia who is the libraries administrator of the Russian collection. My first question was about the Luboff name and did it have a meaning. She said that it was not a usual name in Russian but may have meant love in the Jewish sector of Georgia. It would have had an umlaut or Cyrillic equivalent over the L so that letter would not have been emphasised or pronounced. She also told me that she had gone through the Luboff name and anything similar in the list of Duma members and found nothing. She emphasised that a change of name was a possibility, either before or after leaving Russia. On reflection I was puzzled about this as Luboff is a quite well established name which the book that I am going to give you confirms. If it is an invention then quite a number of people must have decided on the same name simultaneously.
Katya and I we discussed “The Russian” publication and she confirmed that it had not been traced and could not explain why. She did say that sometimes items did get lost in the library with such a vast collection of books and papers. They are still looking for the magazine but I think that hope is fading. This is a great shame as his editorship of the magazine would have given you the most personal connection that you could have found. Probably because she was feeling guilty she had done other searches for me that I had not considered. A search of the British Telephone Directory up to 1946 gives his name in several formats about 20 times. Interestingly one of them is Dr. Edouard L. Luboff and another Dr. Edouard F.R.E.S. Luboff. This looked like a qualification so I put the letters into the computer and came up with Fellow of the Royal Entomologist Society (insects) - does that make any sense to you?
Since starting this report I have had the copy of the will drop through the letter box. It is one page and indicates that he was half way through buying the Manse in Brightwell in Berkshire when he died. He thanks Margaret Ewart for looking after him and not abandoning him when others did. I will let you have the will as soon as possible. Let me know if the signatures are familiar.
Good morning Mark,
You will see myrequest to the Russian Department of the British Library below. I am suggesting that the enquiry is a historical one from the FPA point of view rather than a family history one because it will probably get more attention. I will telephone you to get your opinion on the work load that43 issues of theRussian periodical presents.
Regards
Peter
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From:peter matthews
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:49 PM
Subject: The Russian Magazine 1918-7 to 1919
Good afternoon M/s Rogatchevskaia,
I found an entry in Volume 3 L to R of the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals on page 761. The entry is
"The Russian 1 1-43 15th Oct 1918-7 7th Aug 1919 L"
This was confirmed for me by an advisor in the Humanities 2 room who spent some time searching for the publications but could not find them. I would like you advice and maybe help in finding the publications.
I am researchingthe Editor of the above publication,Dr. Edouard Luboff (1877-1947) who ran the Anglo Russian Press Association in Fleet Street and wasa respected journalist in the newspaper world of the time. We are examining the effect that his writings had (over 50 references and articles between 1919 and 1933in the Daily Mail alone)on government policytowards Communist Russia. As a part ofmy Association's history I amresearching his part and other journalists in the national attitude to the Russian government between the wars.I am also interested in his time and experience in Russia before he came to England. We have been told that hecame from Georgia and was a member of the Duma but we have discoveredno evidence to support that yet. His journalistic capability interests me, hewill have learned his trade from somewhere. We know he was an avid supported of Prof. Pavel Milyukov, the leader of the Constitutional Democrats(KADET) party. Milyukov was the editor of Rech (Speech) newspaper and Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation) newspaper, would Luboffhave been involved in these papers and learned his trade there beforecoming toEngland (in probably Circa 1917) ?
I am going to be at the Library on Wednesday next and would like to ask to see you for a chat on the matter. I willcall you before that to see ifyou are available.
Regards
Peter Matthews
Secretary
The Foreign Press Association
Tele 01892 533567
From: peter matthews [mailto:
Sent: 17 September 2010 19:29
To: Mark Luboff
Subject: Re: Luboffs everywhere !!
Good evening Mark,
In my last email I said that there was a book on the Luboff family which I could not find. Well I found it in the USA and it is entitled "The Luboff Family Name in History" authored by Ancestry. I have taken the liberty of buy it for you. It should take about 30 days to get here; I will let you know.
Regards
Peter
From:peter matthews
To:
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:49 PM
Subject: The Russian Magazine 1918-7 to 1919
Good afternoon M/s Rogatchevskaia,
I found an entry in Volume 3 L to R of the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals on page 761. The entry is
"The Russian 1 1-43 15th Oct 1918-7 7th Aug 1919 L"
This was confirmed for me by an advisor in the Humanities 2 room who spent some time searching for the publications but could not find them. I would like you advice and maybe help in finding the publications.
I am researchingthe Editor of the above publication,Dr. Edouard Luboff (1877-1947) who ran the Anglo Russian Press Association in Fleet Street and wasa respected journalist in the newspaper world of the time. We are examining the effect that his writings had (over 50 references and articles between 1919 and 1933in the Daily Mail alone)on government policytowards Communist Russia. As a part ofmy Association's history I amresearching his part and other journalists in the national attitude to the Russian government between the wars.I am also interested in his time and experience in Russia before he came to England. We have been told that hecame from Georgia and was a member of the Duma but we have discoveredno evidence to support that yet. His journalistic capability interests me, hewill have learned his trade from somewhere. We know he was an avid supported of Prof. Pavel Milyukov, the leader of the Constitutional Democrats(KADET) party. Milyukov was the editor of Rech (Speech) newspaper and Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation) newspaper, would Luboffhave been involved in these papers and learned his trade there beforecoming toEngland (in probably Circa 1917) ?
I am going to be at the Library on Wednesday next and would like to ask to see you for a chat on the matter. I willcall you before that to see ifyou are available.
Regards
Peter Matthews
Secretary
The Foreign Press Association
Tele 01892 533567
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