Yermolay
Yermolay (Russian: Ермолай) is a Russian given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.
Derivation
Yermolay is derived from the Greek Hermolaos, meaning "the people of Hermes".[1]
It is the basis of the surnames Yermolayev and Yermoshin.
Notable Yermolays
People with the given name Yermolay include:
- Ermolai-Erazm, 16th-century Russian churchman[2]
- Yermolay Yermolayevich Hamper (Gamper), 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars[3]
- Yermolay Dementievich Kamezhenkov, 1760–1818, Russian artist[4]
- Yermolay Fyodorovich Kern, 1773–1841, Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
- Yermolai Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn, born 1970, son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translator/annotator of his works[5]
Fictional Yermolays
- Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a character in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife", a story from Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches
- Yermolay, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade.
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