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Russian names started only as a given name, adding the patronymic around the 10th century, and finally the surname only in the late 15th or early 16th century. The surname did not become common, in fact, until the 18th century.
Russian names started only as a given name, adding the patronymic around the 10th century, and finally the surname only in the late 15th or early 16th century. The surname did not become common, in fact, until the 18th century.


=== Websites  ===
==For Further Reading==
 
*[https://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/ A Dictionary of Period Russian Names]
 
*[http://heraldry.sca.org/paul/zgrammar.html Paul Goldschmidt's Dictionary of Russian Names-Grammar]
*[http://heraldry.sca.org/paul/zgrammar.html Paul Goldschmidt's Dictionary of Russian Names-Grammar]


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