Nolde, Boris Emmanuilovich

Born in the family of Baron Emanuel Yulievich Nolde and his first wife Maria Vasilyevna Ekimova. Graduate of the First St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium (graduated in 1894 with a gold medal). He graduated from the law faculty of St. Petersburg University ( 1899 ). Student of professor F.F. Martens , the largest Russian international lawyer. In 1899-1901 he was left to prepare for a professorship at the university in the department of international law. Master of International Law ( 1905 ; dissertation topic: “Permanently Neutral State: Legal Research”).

• In 1903 - 1919 - an extraordinary professor of international law of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
• In 1905-1908 - teacher of international law at the St. Petersburg Higher Women's Courses .
• In 1908 - 1917 - professor of international law at the St. Petersburg Higher Women's Courses.
• In 1908-1917 - teacher of the encyclopedia of law of the Alexander Lyceum .
• In 1907 - 1914 - legal adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
• In 1914-1916 - Director of the legal section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• In 1916-1917 - Director of the 2nd Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Participant in the Second Peace Conference in The Hague in 1907, the London Maritime Conference (1908-1909), conferences on the Svalbard issue (1910-1912), and the Paris Balkan Finance Commission (1913). He was a member of the Institute of International Law and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Theorist of international law (problems of international general and international private law), historian of Russian diplomacy, specialist in the field of Russian state law. Supporter of the positivist school in international law. He published scientific works in many publications, such as: “ Law ”, “ Journal of the Ministry of Justice ”, “ Bulletin of Europe ”, “News of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute”, “Bulletin of the Law”, “ Bulletin of Civil Law ”. According to the Russian political and public figure M. V. Vishnyak ^[1] ,

Nolde was a scientist, as they say, - by God's grace. He was a first-class lawyer, had a keen analytical mind, vast knowledge, lively interest and "taste" in the problems of law. And he wrote in an excellent, simple, concise and precise, elegant language.

Adhered to liberal political views, participated in the activities of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Party of People's Freedom). During the February Revolution of 1917, he participated in the preparation of the manifesto of Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich on abdication and transfer of all power before the convening of the Constituent Assembly to the Provisional Government.

In March-May 1917 he held the post of Comrade Minister of Foreign Affairs (under the Minister P.N. Milyukov ). He was a member of the Legal Meeting of the Provisional Government and the Special Meeting on the Drafting of the Law on Elections to the Constituent Assembly. In October 1917 he became a member of the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (Pre-Parliament).

During the negotiations in Brest, he offered the Soviet government his services in the negotiations. At that time, Nolde believed that the international political program of the Bolsheviks was the only one corresponding to the true state of affairs ^[2] .

In the spring of 1918 he joined the Right Center anti-Bolshevik organization, during this period he became disillusioned with cooperation with the Entente countries and began to adhere to the German orientation. He turned out to be a minority in the cadet party. Until the spring of 1919 , he lectured at the Department of International Law at the University of Petrograd and at the Maritime Academy.

In the summer of 1919 he emigrated to Finland , in the fall participated in negotiations with the Finnish government on behalf of the government of A.V. Kolchak . Then he moved to Paris , since 1920 he was a member of the Paris group of the Cadet Party. He was one of the organizers of the Russian branch at the Sorbonne , dean of the Russian Law Faculty at the Institute of Slavic Studies (Paris), co-editor of the journal "Law and Economics" ( 1925 ). Chairman of the Main Directorate of the Russian Red Cross (Paris), the Law Society in Paris, member of the Central Bureau of the Committee of Congresses of Russian Lawyers Abroad.

He taught at foreign higher military scientific courses in Paris, at universities in France , Belgium , Holland , published articles, textbooks, monographs in Russian, German, French and English. He was engaged in both legal and historical research (in particular, the author of the book on the Slavophile Yuri Samarin ).

During the Second World War he lived in France, held an anti-Nazi position, and was awarded the Legion of Honor for his services during this period. Since 1947 he was chairman of the Institute of International Law.

• The first wife is Alexandra Andreevna nee Iskritskaya (05.10.1880-1933), the sister of Mikhail Iskritsky (1876-1948) ^[3] .
  • Son - Boris (September 25, 1903, St. Petersburg - September 20, 1987, Paris) ^{[3] [4]}
  • Son - Andrey (November 7 (October 24), January 1905–22, 1987, Paris) ^[3] , wife, since 1934 - Irina Pavlovna Andreeva, daughter of S. N. Andronikova .
  • Son - Emmanuel (November 25, 1909—?) ^[3]
• The second wife is Olga Alexandrovna Tereshchenko (1896–?), The daughter of A. N. Tereshchenko and Elizaveta Vladimirovna, nee Khlopova (1862–1932), Olga was the first married to Rosenberg.
• Sister - Catherine (December 19, 1879 — circa 1940), Becker’s first husband, second time married to Boris Germanovich Knatz (10.01.1878-?) ^[3]

In Russian

• Permanently Neutral State: Legal. researched Baron B.E. Nolde, Assoc. St. Petersburg Polytechnic in-that. - St. Petersburg: type. M. M. Stasyulevich, 1905 .-- XIV, 618 p.
• Essay on Private International Law / Bar. B. E. Nolde, extraordinaire. prof. St. Petersburg Polytechnic in-that. - Yuryev: type. K. Mattisen, 1908.- 133 p.
  • Essay on Private International Law. // International law in a systematic exposition / Franz von List, prof. Berlin. un-that; Per. with 5 German ed. under the editorship of [and foreword] prof. B. E. Grabar ; With add. ed. and Essay on Private International Law, comp. prof. bar. B. E. Nolde. - 2nd Russian ed. reslave. - Yuriev (Derpt): type. K. Mattisen, 1909. - XX, 581, [3], CLXXXIV p.
• Essays on Russian state law / Bar. B. E. Nolde, prof. St. Petersburg Polytechnic in-that imp. Peter the Great. - St. Petersburg: type. Pravda, 1911. - [8], 554 p.
  • [Review] Ivanovsky I. A. Review of the work of Baron B. E. Nolde: “Essays on Russian State Law”. S.-Pb. 1911, with. 554 compiled by merit. prof. I.A. Ivanovsky. - Petrograd: type. Imp. Acad. Sciences, 1916. - 43 s
• Foreign policy: East. Essays / Bar. B. E. Nolde. - Petrograd: Yurid. Prince cl. "The Right", 1915. - [8], 264 p.
• The beginning of the war: The experience of diplomatic history / Bar. B. E. Nolde. - Moscow; Petrograd: Rus. Thought, 1915 (Moscow). - 40 s.
• Organization of the national economy of warring Germany / Bar. B. E. Nolde. - Petrograd: type. t-va "Soc. benefit ”, 1916. - 48 p.
• The national question in Russia: [Dokl., Cheat. to IX Delegate. Party Congress freedom, July 24, 1917] / Bar. B. E. Nolde. - Petrograd: Party of Nar. Liberty, 1917. - 8 p.
• Constituent assembly and its tasks: [Speech in sobr. citizens of Rannenburg, Ryazan. lips. Aug 14 1917] / B. E. Nolde. - Petrograd: Lights, 1917. - 32 p.
• Petersburg mission of Bismarck : 1859/1862. Prague, 1925.
• Yuri Samarin and his time / Baron B.E. Nolde. - Paris: Soc. anonyme Impr. de Navarre, 1926 .-- 240 p. ( Reprint - M., 2003. )
  • ... - Paris: YMCA-press, 1978. - 241 p. - (New Ser. Reprint).
• Far and near: East. Essays / Baron B.E. Nolde. - Paris: Lying. zap., 1930. - 278, [6] p. pdf
• History of the formation of the Russian Empire / B.E. Nolde; per. with FR - St. Petersburg .: 2013 .-- 848 p.

In other languages

• Le règne de Lénine. Paris, 1920.
• Le Code civil des Soviets. 1923.
• Les etapes historiques de la codification legislative de droit international privé. 1927.
• L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution Russe. Paris 1928.
• L'alliance franco-russe: Les origines du systeme diplomatique d'avantguerre. Paris, 1936.
• La codification de droit international privé. 1936.
• La formation de l'empire russe: études, notes et documents. 2 vols. Paris: Institut d'Etudes slaves, 1952. Pp. 273, 405.
• Die petersburger Mission Bismarcks, 1859-1862. Leipzig, 1936.
• Russia in the Economic War. Yale University Press , 1928.

• Starodubtsev G. S. International legal science of the Russian emigration (1918-1939) / G. S. Starodubtsev. - M .: Book and business, 2000. - 292, [1] p. ISBN 5-212-00810-7
• Shilohvost O. Yu. Russian civilists: the middle of the XVIII - beginning of the XX century .: krat. biogr. words. / O. Yu. Shilohvost; Issled. center private the rights. - Moscow: Statute, 2005 (Yaroslavl: Yaroslavl Printing Plant). - 190, [1] p. ISBN 5-8354-0303-8

• Nolde Boris Emanuelovich. 1876-1948. Graduate of 1899. Famous students of St. Petersburg University. Faculty of Law. SPb .: Publ. house of St. Petersburg State University, 2012. - 344 p., C. 101, ISBN 978-5-288-05363-4
• Boris Emmanuilovich Nolde on the website of Legal Russia.
• Biography - on the Chronos website
• Biography // Biographical Dictionary. 2000.
• Curriculum Vitae