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Sapajou was the professional name of Georgii Avsent’ievich Sapojinikoff, a former Lieutenant in the Czar’s Imperial Russian army who literally traded a sword for a pen and became one of Shanghai’s most prolific and accomplished cartoonists. He worked for the North China Daily News, a venerable bastion of the British establishment in Shanghai. After prominence for more than a decade, he fell on hard times with the coming of World War II.
World War II, the Chinese Civil War, and the Fall of Shanghai
The former Lieutenant arrived in Shanghai, and by 1925 he was drawing pictures and various political cartoons for the North China Daily news. With a few deft strokes he chronicled—and sometime satirized--- the politics and society of the day. Sapajou’s drawing are not only a mirror of the times, but also reveal what Shanghailanders—foreign residents of Shanghai—thought about their world.
Sapajou was a Lieutenant on the Russian Imperial Army of Czar Nicholas II. A graduate of the Aleksandroskoe Military School in Moscow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was well suited to a military career. When the First World War broke out in 1914 Sapajou fought on the Eastern Front against the Germans. He was badly wounded, however, and was invalided out of the Russian army. In fact, the wounds were so severe he limped badly, and had to use a cane he rest of his life. But during the Russian Civil War Sapajou, like many other White Russians, was forced to flee abroad.
Sapajou was by most accounts a very dashing man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tall with spectacles and a cane. He was popular with women, but men also appreciated his lively sense of humor. There are different opinions on how an army man could become such a great cartoonist. One story says he actually attended an art school in Russia after he was wounded. His granddaughter, Larisa Taboryski, says he just started doodling, and went from there
Cartoonist and Artist of Old Shanghai
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The Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai
Shanghai in the 1930s
When the Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1941 they shut down all allied concerns. Some months later all Allied civilians were interned in prison camps. Sapajou was thrown out of work, though as a stateless Russian he was not arrested. Faced with starvation, he worked for a German newspaper during World War II. After the Japanese surrender no newspaper would hire him, because he now had “worked for the Nazis” It was unfair, but he could do nothing about it.
Sapajou and R.T. Peyton-Griffin, Shanghai's Schemozzle (North China Daily News, 1937)
All of his work is good, and some of it is brilliant. He portrayed Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, for example, as a mustachioed sphinx. He lampooned the Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans equally. One cannot find in his cartoons the overt racism of the times.
The First World War, the Eastern Front, and the Russian Civil War of 1919-1923
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Then the Russian artist got some good news—he was going to be hired as a cartoonist by the Hearst newspaper chain. Unfortunately, the new career opportunity came too late. Already a sick man, he died of lung cancer on October 11th, 1949. But his rich legacy of cartoon art survives to inspire future generations.
While the Chinese Civil War raged (1945-1949),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Sapajou lived in extreme poverty, kept alive by charity from friends. In 1949,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with Mao Zedong’s Communists fast approaching, Sapajou and his family became refugees once again. They found themselves in a refugee camp in Tibabo in the Philippines.
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