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In private, his wife addressed him as Nicki, in the German manner, rather than Коля (Kolya), which is the East Slavic short form of his name. The "short name" (Russian: краткое имя kratkoye imya), historically also "half-name" (Russian: полуимя poluimya), is the simplest and most
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic. Instead of a secondary "middle" given name, people identify themselves with their given and family name and patronymic, a name based on their father's given name.
The Russian surname "Apraksin" (Апраѯінъ; modern: Апраксин) in the Civil Script. Note the variant form of "ksi" (ѯ) in the name is an Izhitsa with a tail. In the Civil Script during Peter the Great's time, Ksi was also written similarly to an izhitsa with a tail. Ksi constituted the number "60" in the Cyrillic numeral system. [5]
Fyodorov or Fedorov (Russian: Фёдоров, masculine) and Fyodorova or Fedorova (Фёдорова, feminine) is a common Russian last name that is derived from the given name Fyodor and literally means Fyodor's. It is transliterated in Polish as Fiodorow (masculine) and Fiodorowa (feminine), in Belarusian as Fiodaraŭ, and in Estonian ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
Pages in category "Russian-language patronymic surnames" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Artyom (also Artiom) (Russian: Артём) is a male given name common in Russia and other Slavic-speaking countries.The name uses the "ё" letter, which can be transcribed to English as "e" but still has the "yo" sound.