diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index f3e83c1b..b2a855d5 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Changelog
 
 Changes in 0.7.X
 ================
+- Unicode fix for repr (MongoEngine/mongoengine#133)
 - Allow updates with match operators (MongoEngine/mongoengine#144)
 - Updated URLField - now can have a override the regex (MongoEngine/mongoengine#136)
 - Allow Django AuthenticationBackends to work with Django user (hmarr/mongoengine#573)
diff --git a/mongoengine/base.py b/mongoengine/base.py
index 342b31ec..714b74ba 100644
--- a/mongoengine/base.py
+++ b/mongoengine/base.py
@@ -1333,10 +1333,11 @@ class BaseDocument(object):
 
     def __repr__(self):
         try:
-            u = txt_type(self)
+            u = self.__str__()
         except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
             u = '[Bad Unicode data]'
-        return '<%s: %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, u)
+        repr_type = type(u)
+        return repr_type('<%s: %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, u))
 
     def __str__(self):
         if hasattr(self, '__unicode__'):
@@ -1344,7 +1345,7 @@ class BaseDocument(object):
                 return self.__unicode__()
             else:
                 return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
-        return '%s object' % self.__class__.__name__
+        return txt_type('%s object' % self.__class__.__name__)
 
     def __eq__(self, other):
         if isinstance(other, self.__class__) and hasattr(other, 'id'):
diff --git a/tests/test_document.py b/tests/test_document.py
index d2969fe6..60a966b7 100644
--- a/tests/test_document.py
+++ b/tests/test_document.py
@@ -85,6 +85,22 @@ class DocumentTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # Ensure Document isn't treated like an actual document
         self.assertFalse(hasattr(Document, '_fields'))
 
+    def test_repr(self):
+        """Ensure that unicode representation works
+        """
+        class Article(Document):
+            title = StringField()
+
+            def __unicode__(self):
+                return self.title
+
+        Article.drop_collection()
+
+        Article(title=u'привет мир').save()
+
+        self.assertEqual('<Article: привет мир>', repr(Article.objects.first()))
+        self.assertEqual('[<Article: привет мир>]', repr(Article.objects.all()))
+
     def test_collection_naming(self):
         """Ensure that a collection with a specified name may be used.
         """