Boris Utin Explained

Boris Isaakovitch Utin
Birth Date:1832
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Relatives:Yakov Utin, brother
Nikolai Utin, brother
Yevgeny Utin, brother

Boris Isaakovitch Utin (1832–1872) was a professor at Saint Petersburg University. He was sympathetic to the student movement in Russia and resigned during the student unrest of 1861, afterwards becoming a lawyer and a member of the Saint Petersburg District Court and the Saint Petersburg Court of Justice.

His close friendship with Karolina Pavlova inspired a number of her poems.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. Sendich. Munir. Pavlova. Karolina. 1976. Boris Utin in Pavlova's Poems and Correspondence: Pavlova's Unpublished Letters to Utin. The Slavonic and East European Review. 54. 4. 504–526. 0037-6795.
  2. Heldt, Barbara. "Karolina Pavlova: The woman Poet and the Double Life." A Double Life. Oakland: Barbary Coast Books, 1978.