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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
Download QR code; Print/export ... 1922 – July 4, 2004) was a Russian American prima ballerina and ... and a great-grandmother in 1996. She died on July 4, 2004 ...
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.
My grandmother, a Jewish woman from a Russian refugee family who married a Christian man, had knit the same pattern for each of her five children in the 1960s. ... When our grandmother died ...
Menshevik (Russian: меньшеви́к) (from Russian word меньшинство́ menshinstvo, "minority", from ме́ньше men'she "less"; the name Menshevik was coined by Vladimir Lenin when the party was (atypically) in the minority for a brief period) (historical) A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic ...
Nonna of Nazianzus (died 370s), Catholic and Orthodox saint; Nonna Bella (fl. 1970s), Turkish singer; Nonna Debonne (born 1985), French footballer; Nonna Grishayeva (born 1971), Russian actress; Nonna Karakashyan (born 1940), Armenian chess player; Nonna Mordyukova (1925–2008), Soviet actress; John Nonna (born 1948), American fencer
Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,340 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In some cultures in the past, matronymic last names were often given to children of ...