Russian surnames of illegitimate children
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 -> Betskoy. There were some other ways to hint at the parent's surname, while in still other cases new surnames had no direct relation to that of parent's.[1][2][3]
Other truncated surnames include: Yelagin -> Agin, Repnin -> Pnin, Golitsyn -> Litsyn, deLitsyn, Vorontsov -> Rantsov, Rumyantsev -> Umyantsev,[1] Potemkin -> Temkina.
See also
[edit]- List of illegitimate children of Russian emperors
- List of illegitimate children of Russian grand dukes
- Category:Illegitimate children of Russian monarchs
References
[edit]- ^ a b Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames, — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; Russian version: Русские фамилии, 1989, Chapter IX: "Artificial surnames"
- ^ НЕСТАНДАРТНЫЕ РУССКИЕ ФАМИЛИИ, citing Суслова А.В., Суперанская А.В., О русских именах, Л.: Лениздат, 1991
- ^ И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Moscow, 2001. ISBN 5-237-04101-9
Further reading
[edit]- Konstanting Gubastov, Генеалогические сведения о русских дворянских родах, происшедших от внебрачных союзов. Publication and commentary by Р. Г. Красюков, with expansion. — СПб., 2003.
- Eugene Pchelov (Евгений Пчелов), Ещё раз о типологии фамилий внебрачных потомков русского дворянства // Известия Русского Генеалогического общества. Вып. 34. СПб., 2018. С. 203–210.