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Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,347 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия ("Family name"), Имя ("Name") and Отчество ("Patronymic"). Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the ...
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A Tatar personal name, being strongly influenced by Russian tradition, consists of two main elements: isem and familia (family name) and also patronymic. Given names were traditional for Volga Bulgars for centuries, while family names appeared in the end of the 19th century, when they replaced patronymics.
Rostov, feminine: Rostova is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:: Anna Rostova, Ukrainian former volleyball player; Mira Rostova, Russian American actress turned acting teacher; Polina Rostova , Russian singer; Characters in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Natasha Rostova; Nikolai Rostov; Petya Rostov; Sonya Rostova
After the Sakha people adopted Christianity from the Russians, they began to use Russian clerical names in official concerns. The naming conventions are similar to those of Russian names . The original Sakha names were used in unofficial settings, but eventually the official clerical names dominated.
In the Russian Empire, illegitimate children were sometimes given artificial surnames, rather than the surnames of their parents. In some cases an illegitimate child of a Russian aristocrat was given a surname derived from the surname of the father by truncation of the first syllable. For example, Trubetskoy was trimmed to Betskoy. There were ...
Coat of arms of the Zhukov family. The Zhukov family (Russian: Жуков) is an old Russian noble family, known since the 15th century.Based on a family legend, they trace their ancestry from Constantinople and came to Russia as entourage of Byzantine princess, Anna Porphyrogenita, fifth wife of Vladimir the Great.