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Nick Cherniavsky 84 was to be totally revamped because of the end of the wr, the end of the Japanese occupation, the termination of anti-Cmmmist activities and all that, % all those things =re actudly to contime only for a few mre mths. Q: You said yau had dances. W d A: There usually d d Q: Russian? A: Yes, definitely. Q: W d be a d l you have orchestras for these dances? band. you do other things besides having dances? A: Oh, there d d be lectures, and there wuld be, as I mentioned, stage plays. lhere wld be poetry recitations, and a mder of things of that nature. There d d be also private parties that d d be staged in private hmres of mire of the umbers of the organization. In other wxds, wen though all these people that d d attend d d be &rs of the group, it mild be mre in the my of a private party rather than a formal function. Q: bhat ages d d A: I d d these people be? say from older teens to mid--ties. Q: kre there similar organizations for the punger children? A: No, the only other organization d d be the Boy Scouts that I -timed I had organized aich, by that the, becam pretty much inactive. Q: Yau did mtion the Boy Scouts and ta ]re that d d be perhaps a traditional British sort of organization. Is that the wy the Boy Scouts originally got started? A: I believe Russian by Scats -re organized two years after Lord Baden-Pel1 organized the Boy Scouts in England. And of case originally Baden-Pel1 organized the Boy Scouts during the Anglo-Boer kr in Africa in what today is the Republic of South Africa. But in Russia, the Boy Scouts =re organized either in 1909 or 1911. If it m s 1911, then 1909 FJpUld be the beginning of the Boy Scouts in England, And the person dm organized the Boy Scouts in Russia, ms, just as Lord Baden-Pnll , a military officer. Jb uw a member of the -rial Guard. Incidentally the Boy Scouts -elves were organized in Russia in Tsarskoye Selo which is a d l reeort: tom nearby St. Peterslug, or ~t now is uningrad . It ms a mxer palace for the tsar fdly and as a matter of fact, the fact that the officer ws a &r of the Imperial Ouaxd and stationed as a mber of the guard &tacbmt aich was doing duty in Tsaxskoye Selo. In other words he assigned the guard duty for the tsar himself ms an interesting £actor in the success of the venture *re. Nick Cherniavsky Memoir, vol. 2 - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L Brookens Library - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS
Nick Chemiavsky - 85 And the scoutmaster rho ms our chief scoumster in Slanghai riho ms rty instructor and -tor in the Boy Scout mrvment when I jolned the son of another young officer. Not at that the but a few years following that, bing the WWI days, he ms recuperating fran wunds received at the front in his participation in a battle with the German des, in a hospital hich WIS in Tsarskoye Selo. This MEU where the tsarina and her daughters and ladies-in-wit- -re participating and helping with carrying out activities and duties in the upkeep of the hospital. So again, the cannection &re my scmtmaster had a lhk to, for one thing, the very beginning of the scout mnranent in Russia and wen to the linperial family in Russia. He himself of course did not participate in WWI because he was too He ms a cadet in Siberia the Russian civil mr and saw SUE =t c action the Russian civil war, but not very much. And he ws me of those dedicated persons * took scouting so nu& to heart that it actually resulted in the break-up of his family life. His wife deserted him and he actually lived day and ni&t by his wrk with the scouting m-t. He lives in this country now, or lived here several years ago. I haven't been in touch with him for a ntanber of years m. Q: lhat's interesting because I as& that dxm you =re living in Shanghai at the British kter krks that it d d have been the British dm started the scout troop. You're saw that this was a Russian Scout troop frm Russia? A: Yes. mvanent itself was definitely Russian and it ws an accredited part of the international scout mmt. And in Shanghai, because of the cosmopolitan type of city, w had Boy Scout troops of every nationality starting with the mese dm ere very active in boy scouting and of course, the British =re represented very sizably. As a matter of fact the British Boy Scaut Association in Shan&ai had a beautiful camp outside the city in an area called Hanjow. They had a rustic type of a pavilion with sleeping accamrodatu if you had to use that, and also grounds for putting up your tents. k Ere allmd by the British Boy Scouts Association to c m at ~ a tine whm they =re not using it tkelves, to use all tk facilities there. I think I participated in a couple of camp-outs there of a few days' duration each the with our wZlole organization which cmsisted of three troops. I later becane assistant scautmaster or the leader of one of those troops, before I mved to Tsingtao, and w d d do a lot of our scat training at the campgrounds. kk had, I muld say, probably abut 150 members in our Russian Boy Scaut Association. Q: Wat other nationalities had troops? A: I think there w s an Italian organization, and there m s a rather sizeable F'rench Boy Scout orgdzation. There was Portugese and I think there vas a Geman Boy but organization and also very definitely a Japanese Boy Scout organization. Q: That's interesting. I've heard that ttae Boy Seas came about largely in this country because of urbanizatian. Do you feel that d d have been true in Shanghai? Nick Cherniavsky Memoir, vol. 2 - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L Brookens Library - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS
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