Yevgeny Isaakovitch Utin () (3 November 1843 – 9 August 1894) was a Russian lawyer and journalist. He was arrested in the student unrest in Saint Petersburg in 1861 and held in the

Peter and Paul Fortress The Peter and Paul Fortress () is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. Between the first half of the 1700s and early ...

for some time. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at

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, he spent several years abroad. He participated in the trial of

Sergey Nechayev Sergey Gennadiyevich Nechayev (; – ) was a Russian anarcho-communist, part of the Russian nihilist movement, known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including revolutionary terror. Nechayev fled Russia in 18 ...

and other political defendants. Following a fatal duel with , he was imprisoned for five months. Utin was an active writer for ''

Vestnik Evropy ''Vestnik Evropy'' () (''Herald of Europe'' or ''Messenger of Europe'') was the major liberal magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia. It was published from 1866 to 1918. The magazine (named for an earlier publication edited by Nikolay Kara ...

'' from its inception in 1866. He reported on the

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from Bulgaria.

Selected publications

*
Вильгельм I и Бисмарк
' ("''Wilhelm I and Bismarck''"), 1892 * ''Из литературы и жизни'' ("''From Literature and Life''"), 1896, 2 volumes. Posthumous publication of his most important journal articles.

Bibliography

* * * * Journalists from the Russian Empire Lawyers from the Russian Empire Activists from the Russian Empire 1843 births 1894 deaths Political prisoners from the Russian Empire Russian duellists Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress {{Authority control