DIPLOMAT ANDREY TERENTIEVICH BELCHENKO
The paper deals with the life of a Russian diplomat Andrey Belchenko (1873-1958) a general consul in a Chinese town of Hankou. Peasant by birth, he was born in Kozlovka village of Bobrovsky district, Voronezh province. Leaving in emigration, he died in San-Francisco. His voluminous archives are kept there in the Russian Museum of Culture.