Julian Shchutsky
Julian Konstantinovich Shchutsky (, 11 August 1897, Ekaterinburg – February 18, 1938, Leningrad) was a Russian sinologist. In 1921, he finished the Saint Petersburg University and became a professor in 1935. Education and scientific career. The father of Julian Shchutsky was of noble origin, he was of the House of Czartoryski, he worked as forestry scientist. The mother of Julian was a music teacher. Julian Shchutsky was the first translator of "The I Ching or Book of Changes". He made the first translation of the Chinese book which later was translated into English and other European languages. Julian Shchutsky was  a prominent polyglot, he translated from more than 16 languages. Julian Shchutsky worked as a research scientist at the State Hermitage Museum in 1936–1937, he was Professor of the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor of the Leningrad State University in 1936-1937, a research scientist in the Asiatic Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1920-1937. He published more than 30 scientific research papers and books. Julian Shchutsky was given bibliographical responsibility for the Daoism and Alchemy portions of the Museum's new acquisitions. This led directly to his translation of the Baopuzi, completed in 1922. He  also completed extensive translations from late Tang poetry, a field in which Alexeev had worked; some of the translations were published under Alexeev's editorship in 1923. Julian Shchutsky's Asian linguistic accomplishments also included Manchu. Shchutsky and Alexeev were among those who took on the special problem of the Chinese script as it presented itself in Russian context, and were involved with the question of romanizing Chinese. A special qualifying commission in 1924 made it possible for Julian Shchutsky to become an Assistant Professor in 1924, teaching at the University and also, from that same year, in the Institute  of Modern Oriental Languages, where he introduced Cantonese alongside Mandarin Chinese, and gave the first courses in Vietnamese. From 1936 to 1937, he gave lecture course titled "Taology" to various student groups at the Saint Petersburg University. During the Great Purge, in February 1938 Shchutsky was arrested. He was convicted by a list trial ("по списку") as a "Japanese spy" and executed.* Influence. Julian Shchutsky was influenced by his teachers sinologists Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad and Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev. In 1923 he and his teacher Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev published "The Anthology of the Chinese Classical poetry of VII-IX centuries". One  of Julian close friends was Cherubina de Gabriak, she influenced his ideology. Shortly before her death, he visited in Tashkent, where Cherubina de Gabriak influenced by Julian, wrote 21 poems attributed to Li Xiang Zi, a fictional Chinese poet exiled for his "belief in immortality of human spirit".