How and when the names were born. History of Russian names

In Rus', naming a baby was not a simple and mundane matter. When parents gave a newborn a name, they literally “prescribed” his fate. For this reason, the choice of name was taken very seriously and scrupulously. Mother and father wanted happiness for their child, so they looked for a name that would save him from illness, misfortune and even premature death.

Naming traditions and direct name

Usually in Russian families, the baby was given several names. One of them was considered direct, that is, given at birth. The mother called them the newly born child, based on her expectations or wishes for her son / daughter. Old Russian direct names sounded beautiful and very meaningful: Zhdan (long-awaited, anxiously expected child), Lyubava (beloved, dear daughter), Love (beloved child), Smeyana (joyful, laughing girl), Golub (meek, like a dove), etc.

Ancient names very often consisted of two parts, each of which expressed a certain concept. For example: Svyatopolk (holy regiment, holy army), Vladimir (owning the world), Radogost (welcome to guests, hospitable), Bolemysl (careful for knowledge, inquisitive, wise), etc. If the kids in the family often died, the parents chose the old or some is enough rare name(Adam, Gordey, Eve, etc.). To protect the child, he was often given the name of a grandfather or grandmother who lived a long life.

If the family grew numerous and, moreover, healthy offspring, parents could not particularly care about choosing the next name for the newborn. Children were often named by birth order, character, or simply by the time of year or the weather outside. Among such old Russian names, the following can be mentioned: May (born in the month of May), Piskun (noisy, vociferous baby), Nezhdan (unplanned child), Sixth (in order of birth, the sixth baby in the family), Moroz (born in hard frost) etc.

christening name

After the adoption of Christianity by Russia direct name, given at birth, was considered temporary. After the rite of baptism, the baby received his second - baptismal - name. Traditionally, he was chosen according to the calendar of Christian holidays and the actual name of the saint, on the day of which the baby was baptized in the church.

So in Russia there were children with names of Greek origin: Agafya (translated from Greek means “kind”), Dmitry (on behalf of the ancient Greek goddess of fertility Demeter), Evdokim (“glorious”), Efrosinya (“joy”), Irina (“peaceful”) ”, “calm”), Xenia (“hospitable”), Makar (“blessed”), Panteleimon (“merciful”), Polycarp (“fertile”), etc. From here came the tradition of naming children with double names. For example, Vladimir-Georgy (“Vladimir” is an Old Slavonic name, “George” is of Greek origin).

Security name

But they did not stop at two - direct and baptismal - names for a child in Rus'. There was also a third name - protective. It was considered "public" and was designed to protect a person from the evil eye, damage and envy of evil forces. If the mother at the birth of the baby called him affectionately Zhdan, under this name he was known in the family circle, but they called him that very rarely.

In front of strangers, the child was nicknamed somehow funny, sometimes even derogatory, so as not to cause envy. There were many protective names and almost all of them had a negative connotation. For example: Pogorelec, Tolstoy, Teterya, Lame, Curly, Turnip, Shilo, Vistula, Nekras, Malice, etc.

The Slavs had a very ancient rite in which the baby was given a protective name. The child, named at birth "Zhdan", was taken out of the hut by the father. Then he brought his son back, and from that time on, the baby was called “Rottooth” or “Curls” in public. So the parents protected their blood from misfortunes, illnesses and other troubles.

Names serve for naming people - when communicating and addressing, and for distinguishing one person from another - when listing, describing or narrating. But there are many more people than names, so one name has many different people. How then to distinguish them? Additional names and the whole composition of naming come to the rescue. About the name of a person in antiquity, the names of the times of the USSR and in tsarist Russia was talking. Let's continue talking about the history of the emergence of Russian names.

Names in Ancient Rome

IN Ancient Rome for people of the propertied classes there was such a naming order: prenomen (pre-name), nomen (name) and cognomen (family name) - Gaius Julius Caesar. Sometimes there was also a fourth name: agnomen (nickname) - Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus the Elder.

The history of the emergence of names in different countries of the world

In most languages, a personal name and a generic name are used (by father, by mother, by place of birth): Isaac Newton, Prosper Merimee, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Leonardo da Vinci, Lope de Vega.

For kings, tsars, rulers, the surname was often replaced by a nickname: Vladimir Monomakh, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan the Terrible, Pepin the Short, John the Landless, Henry the Birds, while the nickname, unlike the surname, is always translated into other languages.

In some nations, it is customary to call children by a chain of names: Johann-Wolfgang Goethe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George-Gordon Byron, Jose-Raul Capablanca-i-Graupera (here and double surname). Sometimes the chain of names goes on and on; for example, the medieval alchemist Paracelsus was called: Philip-Aureol-Theophrastus-Bombast Count von Hohenheim, and in one drama of Victor Hugo one aristocrat bears the name: Gil-Basilio-Fernand-Ireneo - Felippe-Frasco-Frasquito Count de
Belveran. Even in the 19th century, the heir to the Spanish throne bore the name: Don Pedro - d'Alcantara - Maria Fernando - Gonzago-Xavier-Miguel - Gibriel-Rafazel-Antonio - Joan Leopoldo Francisco - d'Assisi - Saxe - Coburg-Gotha de Braganza -e-Bourbon! (This is reported by L. V. Uspensky in the book “What does your name mean?”, 1940)

Names in Ancient Rus'. Names before the Baptism of Rus'

What is the situation with names in Russian? Before the adoption of Christianity in Rus'(X century) among the privileged classes there were such names as Lubomir, Ostromir, Svyatoslav, Rostislav, Yaroslav, Lyudmila, Rogneda, Voislava and the like. With the adoption of Christianity "according to the Eastern rite" under Kiev prince Vladimir, new names appeared that appeared in church canons and therefore are called canonical; they were given during the performance of the "sacrament of baptism."

IN Ancient Rus' these names served as legal names of people and were put in acts, bills of sale and other documents in the first place. However, the habit of old names that did not appear in the lists and canons of the church persisted in Rus' for a long time, at least until the 17th century. At the same time, double names are constantly found in ancient Russian documents: “... in the name of Milonog. Peter by baptism. Or: “... Zhdan in the world, and Mikul in baptism,” etc. Thus, for several centuries, along with the canonical names: Alexander, Alexei, Daniel, Dimitri, Konstantin, Nikita, Nikolai, Peter, Roman, Sergey, etc. n.p. - non-canonical names were also in use, which were more used in everyday communication and in second place in letters: Pervusha, Vtor, Tretyak (according to the chronology of birth); Zhdan, Nezhdan, Nechay (according to circumstances of birth); Guban, Ushak, Plekhan, Shcherbak, Nesmeyan, Gloomy, Bulgak, Malice, Istoma, Druzhina (according to physical and mental properties); Wolf, Horse, Thrush, Ruff (by the name of animals, birds, fish); as well as Tail, Frost, Fur Coat, Cannon, etc.

IN history of Russian names these names are more like nicknames, which, however, could not only distinguish people with the same canonical names, but also later pass into surnames, which we will talk about next time.

Judging even by the examples given, one can see that proper names, as a rule, come from common nouns, but since proper names pass from one people to another and live for centuries in a different language environment, they most often “mean” in some another language, but in the given language this borrowed name is only a proper name and does not mean anything, but only names.

Russian canonical names are borrowed from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, from ancient Germanic, where they were both common nouns (as in Russian: Faith, Hope, Love). Here are some examples:

• Greek: George ("farmer"), Alexander ("protector of husbands"). Apollo ("destroyer"), Archippus ("chief of the cavalry"), Hippolytus ("unharnessing horses"), Philip ("lover of horses"), Nikephoros ("victorious"),
• Latin: Victor ("winner"), Victoria ("victory"), Valentine, Valery, Valerian ("healthy"), Marina ("sea"), Juvenal ("youthful"),
• Hebrew: Anna ("grace"), Gabriel ("divine warrior"), Michael ("divine"), Mary ("bitter").
• Old Norse: Igor (one of the names of the god of thunder in connection with the common var - “army, strength”), Oleg, Olga (“sacred, majestic”).

It is quite clear that in the Russian names Anna, Mikhail, Maria, Nikifor, etc., there is no common noun. These are just names.

Many Slavic names are translations of foreign languages, for example: Zlata - Greek. Chris, Bogdan - Greek. Theodore (Fyodor), Militsa - Greek. Harita, Vera - Greek. Pistis, Hope - Greek. Elkis, Love - Greek. Agape, lat. Amata etc.

Many Russian names have parallel variants that have arisen due to the different rendering of the same foreign name: Evdokia-Avdotya, Ksenia-Aksinya, Glykeria - Lukerya, Anastasia - Nastasya, Georgy - Yuri - Yegor, Paraskeva-Praskovya, etc.

The original form of many borrowed names has changed a lot in the practice of the Russian language, for example: Joseph-Osip, Eleazar - Lazar, Dionysius - Denis, Cosmas - Kuzma, Emmanuel - Manuila, Eustathius - Ostafiy, Stahei, Johanaan - Ivan.

Pre-revolutionary years

The desire to update the repertoire of names manifested itself in pre-revolutionary times, when the fashion for Old Russian names, although many of them were non-Slavic in origin, for example, Oleg, Igor (the fashionable poet of that time Igor Severyanin wrote: “It’s good that I’m separate, that I’m Igor, and not Ivan ...”), at the same time they also entered fashion "romantic" and "exotic" names: Tamara, Isabella, Valentina (the same Igor Severyanin: "Valentina! How much passion! Valentina! How much horror ... It was at a concert at a medical institute ..."). How can one not remember Nastya from Gorky's play "At the Bottom", when the Baron says about her: "Today Raul, tomorrow Gaston ... fatal love, lady!

1920 - 1930 years

In the 1920s, the craving for "romantic" names intensified. It was possible to announce a name change through the Izvestia newspaper. And so Thekla and Matryona began to change their names to Evelyn, Leonor and Vener, and Terentii and Sidora - to Alfred and Richard (remember the loser from the film " Musical history» Alfred Terentyevich Tarakanov ...).

On top of this, two more types of names appeared:

1) names from common nouns and their derivatives, which corresponded to the ideology and phraseology of the revolutionary era of the 20s: Labor, International, Struggle, Communard, Tractor, Detector - for boys; Spark, Star, Tractorina, Ideal (!) - for girls ..;
2) names formed from the personal names of the revolutionaries and their own, generated by the revolutionary era: Marxin, Engelsin, Lenin, Comintern, Oktyabrin ...

In addition, in connection with the general trend of the business language of that time towards abbreviations and abbreviations (that is, designations by the first letters), names appeared from abbreviations of names and slogans: Vlad (i) len. Maplen, Borzamir, Dazamira, Zanarzema, Revmira, Renata, Gertrude, Lagshmivara…

As well as abbreviations from the first letters of names and slogans: Virakl, Vilora.

Many parents put their children in a ridiculous position, because to "unravel" ideological meaning the name was very difficult, but it is much easier to attribute it to a well-known series of names. So, Gertrude ("heroine of labor") coincides with German name Gertrude, Kim ("Youth Communist International") - with Korean, Renata ("revolution - science - labor") - with Italian, and those who bear these names seem, alas, to be foreigners!

The same thing happened with abbreviations and changelings: Vilora is perceived as italian name. Ninel - like French, Virakles - like Greek (cf. Hercules, Pericles), Borzamir - like Old Russian (cf. Ostromir, Jaromir), and Lagshmivara suggests India ...

And no decoding like Vilor - “V. I. Lenin is the father of the revolution ”Ila Dizara -“ Baby, go for the revolution ”do not help here. The type of a word is everything for a given language. That is why the Ideal turned into Ida so quickly, Ninel into Nina, and Struggle into Boris.

In names Soviet era In the 1960s, there was great diversity. Basically, of course, these were canonical names like Alexander, Vasily, Ivan, Peter, Pavel, Sergey, as well as Natalya, Tatyana, Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov, Anna, Maria, Ekaterina ...

From these names there have long been legitimized by custom diminutives: Sasha, Shura, Vasya, Vanya, Petya, Pasha, Natasha, Tanya, Nadia, Masha, Katya ... These names are familiar and common, they are the most durable in the Russian history of names and exist for dozens of centuries. It is these names that are common in Russian so far.

According to the magazine "Family and School", 1962

Proper names were isolated in ancient times. Of course, it is impossible to find witnesses who would confirm this, but even the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus (c. 280–208/205 BC) singled out names as a separate group of words. Today, the study of the proper names of people, the patterns of their emergence and development, their structure, functioning in society, distribution is engaged in anthroponymy (“anthropos” - a person, “onyma” - a name). The proper names of people are called anthroponyms.

People have always been given names. There are many legends and legends about how they arose. Here is one of them. In the distant time when Higher intelligence gave people speech, there was one language. Each word reflected the inner essence of things. Whoever knew the word gained power over what it meant. Chaos arose in the world, because people could not decide who exactly would rule and who would obey. Then the priests came up with other words for everything in the world, in order to prevent the uninitiated from using true names things to evil. Higher knowledge turned out to be beyond the reach of man. As a result, different languages ​​arose, and true language was hidden and then almost completely lost. So it is said about the language, words and names in the legends of many peoples. The same thing happened with the names of people.

People now had to invent names themselves. Moreover, in many cultures, the child was given two names - close to the present and the second, for general use, so that no one could, knowing the real name, harm the child. Our distant ancestors understood that a name is not just the name of a person to distinguish him from others, but a kind of verbal formula that is somehow connected with the fate of a person and power over him. They tried to use it in different ways.

In Indian and some African tribes given repulsive names to ward off evil spirits. Once upon a time it was believed that only the person himself and his parents should know the real name. In Indian tribes, a young man learned his real name only on the day he was recognized as an adult through meditation and communication with spirits and did not tell anyone. Old Indian shamans say that often this name could not be pronounced with normal sounds, it existed only as a mixture of image and sound.

The ancient Greeks gave the child the names of gods and heroes, hoping that the child would enjoy their favor and inherit their qualities and destiny. But calling children by similar names was somehow tactless, and dangerous - after all, the gods of the Hellenes lived very close - on Mount Olympus, were very similar to people and often communicated with them. They might not like such familiarity. Therefore, for everyday appeal to the gods, various epithets were used, which also transformed into names. For example, Victor is the winner, Maxim is the greatest. These epithets were called Zeus. Mars wore a laurel branch, hence the name Laurus. Many gods wore headdresses like crowns or diadems. Hence the name Stefan - crowned.

However, the tradition of giving children the direct names of the gods, although not the supreme ones, was also preserved in order to avoid their wrath for such impudence. The names Muse, Apollo, Aurora, Maya are still in use. Later, this desire became a Christian tradition to give names in honor of the righteous, canonized as saints.

In Rus', there was another tradition: the parents gave the newborn a name that was real - it was known to the parents, godparents and especially close people. It combined the wishes for the baby, the hopes and aspirations of the parents, it reflected the love for the child and the desire for his happiness. Then the child was wrapped in matting and taken out of the threshold, as if demonstrating evil spirits that they found an abandoned baby, which is not particularly needed. And they called him such a name that would scare away evil spirits and lull her attention. "They call Zovutka, but they call it a duck." It means what to call given name a stranger was considered dangerous. What if the stranger was a sorcerer who could use the knowledge of the name for evil. Giving the child a dissonant and repulsive name, they hoped that evil forces they will not bother to harm the unworthy, and also a plain name will not arouse the envy of the gods. The ceremony of the second naming was carried out in adolescence, when the main character traits were formed. The name was given based on these traits.

However, the tradition of such naming did not take root. Yes, and a person who is constantly called not by his real name, but by a nickname, often acquired all the qualities inherent in this nickname. In such a situation, the name-amulet protected the person from who knows what. Since the name was not spoken out loud, it had no internal connection with its bearer.

The influence of a name on a person and his fate has been noticed for a long time. At all times it was believed, and quite rightly, that the word that is chosen for the name with love will help in life. But at the same time, to give a name, to call, means to acquire secret power. IN different languages the emotional coloring of the word does not change, and what denotes something pleasant has a sound that is pleasant to the ear, and vice versa.

Thus, the development of the name has a long history. Before the adoption of Christianity in Rus', original names were used, created on Slavic soil by means Old Russian language. The Slavs chose to name their children any words that reflect the various properties and qualities of people, their character traits: Clever, Brave, Kind, Cunning; features of behavior, speech: Molchan; physical advantages and disadvantages: Oblique, Lame, Krasava, Curly, Chernyak, Belyay; the time and “order” of the appearance of a particular child in the family: Menshak, Elder, First, Second, Tretyak; profession: Peasant, Kozhemyaka and much more. Similar names were also used by other peoples, it is enough to recall the names of the Indians that characterized the characteristics of a particular person: Eagle Eye, Sly Fox, etc. We had several other names, which later, with the adoption of Christianity and the consolidation of names in church calendars have become nicknames. Some of these nicknames have come down to us in the form of surnames: Cat, Beetle, Wolf, Sparrow. It should be noted that these surnames are very common.

From the 11th to the 17th century, the original Slavic names fade into the background, and the Byzantine-Greek ones come to the fore. With the advent of Christianity, a two-name system began to develop. In order to protect a person from evil spirits, he was called one name, but called a completely different one. This period is characterized by social stratification. At this time, ancient Russian names are common, which consist of two roots and contain the root -slav. These are such names as Vyacheslav, Svyatoslav, Yaroslav, Borislav, which were joined by Byzantine-Greek names with the same root: Stanislav, Bronislav, Miroslav, etc.

From the beginning of the 18th century until 1917, canonical names dominated, a three-term formula for naming a person (last name, first name, patronymic) was formed and spread, and a pseudonym appeared.

After the revolution, newly formed names reflecting the events taking place in the country become very popular. The formation of new names especially affected girls. So, they were called Idea, Iskra, Oktyabrina. There is evidence that one girl was even called the Artillery Academy. It was fashionable to call twins a boy and a girl Revo and Lucia; the names of the boys Genius, Giant are known (it is noteworthy that these names did not always correspond to reality, and often completely contradicted). However, at that time, names appeared that continue their lives today: Lilia (it is similar to the Russian name Lydia and very harmonious), Ninel (reading the name Lenin in reverse order), Timur, Spartak.

The modern Russian name book includes many names of various origins. But still, names that we can rightly call Russian have a huge advantage. Although there are very few actual Russian names left. Over time, the original meaning of the names was forgotten, and in fact, historically, each name was a word or phrase of some language. Almost all modern names came to us from Byzantium and have Greek roots, but many of them were borrowed from other ancient languages, or were simply borrowed from ancient Roman, Hebrew, Egyptian and other languages, and with this method of borrowing they were used only as a proper name, and not as a word, denoting something.

The origin of the names goes back to ancient times and is covered with a layer different legends. The exact time when the “proper names” group began to be distinguished is not known, but already in the 3rd century BC, the philosopher Chrysippus attributed them to a separate group of words.

Imagine the time when people lived in caves, ran a joint household, knew nothing about medicine and the world outside their settlements. When a person only began to give a name to the things around him, he was surprised and studied the nature of being.

The first names were not invented specifically to refer to specific person, people used different words for this: the names of animals, natural phenomena, plants, seasons, celestial bodies, gods, etc. (Willow, River, Wolf, Rain). But the ancient cryptic names quite often they were given to people based on: character traits, appearance, lifestyle, features, behavior, etc. (Nose, Chatterer, Wanderer). So, the tallest man in the settlement could be called - Rock, and the quietest - Mouse.

People in ancient times began to understand that the name, given to man, can influence his fate in various ways. Then they began to choose names that would mean something good. In African and Indian tribes, children were called so that the name sounded repulsive, scaring away evil spirits and evil spirits.

Also in history, there was a rather frequent phenomenon when a child had two names: one was known only to him and his parents, and the other was a common one that everyone could call.

Few people know that in China, a child received his first name at birth, the second - when he entered school, and the third (adult) - after adulthood.

IN ancient greece parents named babies after heroes, gods, and important figures in history. They believed that then the child would inherit their greatness, strength and those qualities that the heroes possessed. But people, naming the child as one of the gods, often feared the Almighty. Therefore, for everyday appeal to the gods, they used a variety of epithets, from which some of the names known to us originated: Alexander - "defender", Victor - "winner", Laurus - "in honor of Mars", wearing a laurel branch, or Stefan, in Slavic languages turned into Stepan, which means "crowned", since many gods wore wreaths.

Sometimes, however, the children were named the same as the gods, but not the main ones, but the secondary ones: Aurora, Muse. Superstitious pagans hoped that best qualities and the abilities of these gods will pass to their child along with the name. And, perhaps, they hoped that the gods would even bring a gift to their family in the form of a good harvest or good health.

The history of the origin of names is not always as simple as it seems. We do not always know where this or that name came from. Even if we ourselves are its carriers.

Many people think that such names as: Maria (Masha), Ivan (Vanya) are primordially Russian. This is a delusion, because they, like many others, familiar to hearing, came from other languages ​​and peoples.

Among the widely used names, there are many that have Greek, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Latin and other roots.

After the adoption of Christianity and the departure of paganism, more and more foreign names with deep meaning began to penetrate into our culture: Nikita - "winner", Alexei - "defender", Elena - "bright", Eugene - "noble" and so on.

Perhaps we consider them to be primordially Russian, since they are often used in folklore, fairy tales and legends familiar to us from childhood.

But there is also big variety primordially Russian names that have survived to this day: Lyudmila - “dear to people”, Yaroslav - “glorifying Yarila”, Vladimir - “owning the world”, Vsevolod - “owning everything”, Zlata - “golden” and a huge number of such examples can be found studying the history of Rus'. Today, these names are gaining popularity again, because many want to return to authenticity. family values and the history of his people.

It is interesting and important to know that people with strange or very funny names more often than others suffer from a variety of mental illnesses.

Remember: it will always be useful to find out the origin, meaning and secret meaning nicknames. Knowing the historical names may help you understand yourself a little better. You will know what you are capable of, and, most importantly, you will be able to choose a name with a good story for your child. Do not forget that by naming a child, you endow him with certain qualities, so you should carefully approach the choice of a name and figure out where it came from.

In the expanses of wavy grass
With a ribbon of wind in gray hair
Frozen Slav at the foot of the mountain,
Contemplating the neighborhood like a bird.

Duma thought. And a shadow of sadness
Hidden between furrowed brows:
He felt so sorry for himself
And sobbing wives, mothers.

On the hills here he will meet the enemy,
Buried with his gang,
And he will cut the horns from the helmets,
For the land that has no relatives

Slav sighed. turning the horse
Returned to the columns of squads ...
Armor burned in the rays of the sun,
Melting hundreds of shields as one.

Like holding the sky on your shoulders
Passed along attentive faces -
There is no need here for lofty speeches -
They will stand to death without falling on their faces.

So the stars went out in the night,
Mist spread across the field,
Only the creak with which swords are sharpened,
Revealed that the lull is a deception.

Prince, wrapped in the sparks of a fire,
He drove horror from the heart of cold.
Only fatigue closed his eyes -
There is little left before dawn.

Daylight dispelled the fears of darkness.
“Harder step! Keep building! Have fun!
Day today we borrowed!
So is our enemy bolder?

On your raven in front...
The prince is calm, like a bow string,
What is capable of carrying in an instant
Death to the enemy, having drunk the blood in full.

Here are the hills, here are the foothills...
The horn blows the formation of the shelves.
And the enemy's tents soar,
And anxious trembling on the hands.

The beating of the heart froze for a moment,
Silence became viscous like wax
And the cuckoo's only cry
Like a needle, it pierces the brain.

Spears forest, swaying opal,
Everything is in motion like an avalanche,
Terrible roar doused the pass
And then the cheekbones bulged with anger.

A brother became a shoulder to his brother, a friend to a friend,
Steel met the enemies of the avant-garde.
The string sang a song around,
Like a broken bard voice.

Blades whistled with damask steel -
Slav rushed about like a furious beast,
Cutting people to pieces
Opening the door to another world.

Another step, another swing, another corpse.
The light faded in the dance of death:
Blood for blood, eye for eye, tooth for tooth
The sound of swords drowned in groans of pain.

Either a year has flown by, or a day,
The enemy formation trembled and fled,
As if a shadow of fear was rushing after him,
Flags thrown and trampled into the ground.

Thunder rumbled, splitting the sky
Gave freedom to the streams of water,
That washed the wounds and sweat from the bodies,
Like the tears of an inconsolable widow.

The clouds were soon replaced by the moon -
All the Prince wandered among the fallen friends,
He closed his eyes with his hand,
He promised to raise their children.

And those who went to death danced
Dance of souls in funeral pyres
Crumpled copper sparkled
On shields up in the air.

Many years have passed since then.
Glory in his native land took rest,
But the daughter kept this vow:
She sanctified the grandson of the prince with ashes.

The newborn was crying out loud
And the happy mother laughed.
People drank intoxicated honey from troughs,
Argued loudly about what to call.

The princess told them her answer: -
“In memory of my grandfather, I will give him a name.
It will be pure as dawn,
The rest will take in life itself.

Be like Slav. she whispered,
Taking my son carefully in my arms.
Honest people picked up like a wave
Proud name: - "Stanislav!"
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July 25, 2013

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I liked the lines. 5+++

IN Vedic culture Slavs the name of the person directly
connected with his fate and evolutionary level of development. If
varna∗
(etheric body) of a born child corresponds to a priest, then his name has two roots. And one of the roots
usually “glory” - that is, glorifying, or “lyubo” - loving.

In order to make sure that the Slavs produced their own
name from Slava, it is enough to give some Slavic
proper names, which included the root "glory" as
fundamental concept. StaniSlav, Sudi-Slav, Tverdi-Slav, Churo-Slav, Yaro-Slav, etc. In the "Word of Igor's Campaign" out of 20 Slavic names, 14 end
to “Slav”, and in the annals of Nestor, out of 130 Slavic names, 103 fall on the same root.
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The quality of durability is reflected in the names: StaniSlav, Stanil, Stoyan, etc.

Stanislav read your review, so please accept gratitude from both of us.

We send you our kindest and warmest wishes.

Sincerely, Inna and son.))