Nikolai N. Titoushkin - the First Russian Resident in Taiwan
Russian naval officer P.I. Ibis, who made a trip to Formosa in 1875, mentioned in his article that he met a Russian man, the Marine Custom officer, during his brief stay in Keelung city in the Northern part of the island. That man should be the first Russian long time resident, living and working in Taiwan. Unfortunately, Ibis didn’t mention his name. In 2014 he was finally identified as a certain N. Titoushkin. The author of this paper tries to recover the biography of Nikolai Titoushkin in order to fill this gap and pay tribute to an extraordinary person with an unusual biography, closely related to Russia, China and Taiwan.