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In need of a Russian name

by Cora (Nitrojen)

7/25/2010, 10:28 AM

A friend of mine has put together a story set in 1860-something about a girl from Russia who is very talented at cello playing. The cello needs a name, and I thought I'd ask you people for suggestions.

It can be the name of a Russian musician, the name of a town in Russia, or just a "pet name" that the MC really likes. The writer's stipulation is that it needs to be masculine and easily pronounceable in English. :-D

Any ideas?

#Russian

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- dancingintherain

7/27/2010, 11:41 PM

Dimitri

- Lea M (lcgirl20)

7/27/2010, 7:19 AM

Ilya

- Lyre +2

7/25/2010, 10:30 PM

Sorry if some of these aren't that easy to pronounce. I speak Russian, so what comes naturally to me may not roll so easily off someone else's tongue. :-)

Nikolai/Kolya
Aleksandr/Sasha/Aleksei
Sergei/Seriozha (maybe too hard?)
Vladimir/Volodya
Yuri/Yura
Lev/Lyova
Ilya
Pyotr/Pasha/Petya
Timofei
Boris/Borya
Konstantin/Kostya
Ivan/Vanya

As for some cities...Vladivostok, Tsaritsyn, Archangelsk (or Archangel), Perm, Glazov, Murmansk, Moscow of course, Zhukov, Luza, Kirov...

Give your friend kudos for choosing a Russian character!

- Cora (Nitrojen) +1

7/26/2010, 9:40 AM

Why she's Russian...

We are making a little film about the story, and the only girl we could find to play the main character is Russian! So the story changed, and it's way more awesome now.

Thanks for your suggestions! I'll run them by my friend and see what he thinks. :-D

- Lyre

7/26/2010, 12:14 PM

Haha, cool!

- CN (CSwe)

7/25/2010, 12:01 PM

Fyodor

- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

7/25/2010, 10:48 AM

Vanya and Misha (respectively nns for Ivan and Mikhael) come to mind. Not hugely original, I suppose.

Modest, after Mussorvski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky

or Rimsky after Rimsky-Korsakov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov

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