Nikolai 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.
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