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A note on Eugenio Bulygin and Russian Legal scholarship

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24. A NOTE ON EUGENIO BULYGIN
AND RUSSIAN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP
Mikhail ANTONOV*
Most of Professor Eugenio B’s works are published in Spanish,
English and in other Western languages. These are the languages through
which Eugenio’s work is known in the Western world. However, Eugenio
has paid much attention also to the Russian legal scholarship and to the
Russian culture in general. This aspect will be shortly elucidated in this note.
Russian culture and language have always been existentially vital
to Eugenio – in our personal conversations he considered Russian as his
mother tongue and identied himself as a «Russian living in Argentina»,
albeit he had lost the Soviet citizenship long ago. In 1943 his family was
deported as Zwangsarbeiter by Nazis to Austria and in 1945 they decid-
ed not to return to the Soviet Union where most probably they would be
placed in one of the concentration camps where the returning Zwangsarbe-
iter could wait years before their check and where they would be stigma-
tized as traitors. Eugenio was born on the territory of today’s Ukraine, in
the city of Kharkov, in a Russian-speaking family.
Even in the Soviet time Eugenio managed to travel to Russia, he made
a tour of the Golden Ring (the Russian medieval cities around Moscow),
visited Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) and Moscow. Eugenio has not
then made any contacts with Soviet scholars. Anyways, in these times he
could travel to the USSR only as a tourist. Apart from the Iron curtain
problems, his works were written for the Western audience and were ori-
ented at the corresponding level of knowledge. Even supposing that he
* Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia. E.mail: mantonov@hse.ru

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