Plaksin (male) and Plaksina (female) (Russian: Плаксин, Плаксина) are Russian surnames. They derived from the non-calendar given name Plaksa (translates as "crybaby, weeper"[1]) that belonged to the apotropaic group of names that were supposed to turn away harm or misfortune from a child.[2] First mentions of Plaksa and Plaksin surnames date back to the first half of the 16th century and include both peasants and boyars of Veliky Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas.[3][4] A well-known noble house (see The Plaksins) was founded in 1782 by Trofim Lukyanovich Plaksin of the Cossack Hetmanate who was granted Russian nobility for his service.[5][6]
Notable people
- Gleb Plaksin (1925—2008), French-born Soviet and Russian film actor
- Ivan Plaksin (1803—1877), Russian lieutenant-general, grandson of Trofim Plaksin[7]
- Suzie Plakson (born Susan Plaksin 1958), American actress, singer, writer, poet, and artist
- Valentina Plaksina (born 1996), Russian rower[8]
- Vasily Plaksin (1795—1869), Russian writer, literary historian and educator[9]
- Yaroslav Plaksin (1963), Russian - American Creator of Liquor and Wine Brands. <ref> [http://www.muranowine.com/ | http://www.ilcarnevalediveneziawine.com/about_wine.html | nephew of the Gleb Plaksin
References
- ↑ Plakat'/Плакать word meaning from the Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary (in Russian)
- ↑ Boris Unbegaun (1972, 1989). Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press; Moscow: Progress, p. 165 ISBN 5-01-001045-3
- ↑ Nikolai Tupikov (1903). Dictionary of Old Russian Given Names. — St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov's Printing House, pp. 305, 694
- ↑ Stepan Vesyolovsky (1974). Onomasticon. Old Russian Names, Nicknames and Surnames. — Moscow: Nauka, p. 246
- ↑ Plaksin coat of arms by All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Part 13, January 19, 1885 (in Russian)
- ↑ Armorial of Little Russia (1914), p. 134
- ↑ Plaksin Ivan Semyonovich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
- ↑ Valentina Plaksina at the International Rowing Federation website
- ↑ Plaksin Vasily Timofeevich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
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