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Tatiana from Eugene Onegin by Elena Samokysh-Sudkovskaya, 1899. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia as toddlers. Tatiana (left, sitting) was named for Tatiana Larina in Eugene Onegin because her parents liked the idea of sisters named Olga and Tatiana as in the poem by Alexander Pushkin.
Russian model Anastasia Knyazeva is only six years old, but she's already being hailed as "the most beautiful girl in the world." If you recall, the title was once held by French model Thylane ...
It is formed in a manner similar to other colloquial Russian names (for example, Kostya for Konstantin, Anya for Anna). Russian citizens of Muslim ethnical minorities also have the name of "Aliya" of probably Arabian descent, which is never used by Russians, and is both a full and a short name. In Arabic, Alya means sky, heaven, and loftiness. [1]
Kikimora (Ukrainian and Russian: кикимора, IPA: [kʲɪˈkʲimərə]) is a legendary creature, a female house spirit in Slavic mythology. Her role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy. The kikimora can either be a "bad" or a "good" spirit, which will depend on the behavior of the homeowner. [1]
According to the Social Security Administration, some Russian girl names that made the top 1000 baby girl names of 2022 include Anastasia, Nadia, Sasha, and Zoya.
Dostoevsky also depicts the heroine Grushenka as Ophelia, binding the two through the words "Woe is me!" in the chapter titled "The First Torment". [2] Dating Hamlet (2002), by Lisa Fiedler, tells a version of Ophelia's story. [3] Agatha Christie's characters refer to Ophelia in the novels After the Funeral (1953), Third Girl (1966) and Nemesis ...
In the folklore of the Southern Slavs, rozhanitsy are described as beautiful girls or as good-natured elderly women. Sometimes they are also represented as three women of different ages: a girl, an adult woman and an elderly woman. Southern Slavs described them as beautiful figures with white, round cheeks.
This pretty girl of legend inspired the revolutionaries, and looked after those wounded in the many battles across the country. A recent discovery establishes that the first written mention of the name of Marianne to designate the Republic appeared in October 1792 in Puylaurens in the Tarn département near Toulouse .