- Source: 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 was trimmed to 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.
Other truncated surnames include: Yelagin to Agin, Repnin to Pnin, Golitsyn to Litsyn or deLitsyn, Vorontsov to Rantsov, Rumyantsev to Umyantsev, and Potemkin to Temkina.
See also
List of illegitimate children of Russian emperors
List of illegitimate children of Russian grand dukes
Category:Illegitimate children of Russian monarchs
References
Further reading
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.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Russian surnames of illegitimate children
- Eastern Slavic naming customs
- Surname
- Gamba (surname)
- Temkin
- Elizabeth Temkina
- Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya
- Patronymic
- Ivan Betskoy
- Princess Catherine Yurievskaya
