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5 Jus Gentium: J. Int'l Legal Hist. 593 (2020)
Boris Nolde: International Lawyer of Imperial Russia and the Russia Abroad

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                    BORIS NOLDE
           INTERNATIONAL LAWYER OF
  IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIA ABROAD

                     V. S. IVANENKO'

    Baron   Boris Emmanuilovich Nolde (also Nol'de) (14
December   1876, b. St. Petersburg; 28 May 1948, d. Lausanne,
Switzerland), a well-known international lawyer in his time, legal
scholar, diplomat, writer, public and political figure, was among the
most talented and productive pupils of Fedor Fedorovich Martens
(1845-1909). Nolde wrote about the history of Russia, the theory and
practice of State law, foreign policy, diplomacy, civil law, trade law,
and the law of the sea. He and his works have unjustifiably been
long forgotten in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia because
he emigrated.
    Life and fate. Boris Nolde was descended from a family of
Russian Germans  descended from nobility based in the Courland
Gubernia, the son of a distinguished Russian dignitary, member of
the State Council of the Russian Empire, privy councilor, Baron
Emmanuil  lul'evich von Nolde (1854-1909).
    In 1895 Boris Nolde graduated with the gold medal from the I
Petersburg Gymnasium   and that same year enrolled at the Law
Faculty of St. Petersburg University.' He graduated in 1899 with a
first-class diploma.2
    Accounts of the further life and professional career ofNolde are
shrouded in many  inaccuracies and errors of judgment. Even the
dates of his  emigration abroad are confused, being variously
specified as 1918,3 1919,4 and 1920.5 The present article is based



*Docent, Chair of International Law, St. Petersburg University (Russia).
11F4A  CH6., fond 14, opis 3, file 31664.
2 He also was awarded a gold medal in 1898 for an essay on The
Political Doctrine of J.-J. Rousselau. LI4A CH6., fond 14, opis 3, file
14344,1. 52.
3 See, for example, V. V. Zhurvale  (ed.), O 61UecTBCHHi MbICJIb
PyccKorO 3apy6ecb5i: 3HHKJIO1HMA  [Social Thought of the Russia
Abroad: Encyclopedia] (Moscow, 2008), p. 457.
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