Plaksin

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]) which 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]

References
  1. Plakat'/Плакать word meaning from the Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary (in Russian)
  2. Boris Unbegaun (1972, 1989). Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press; Moscow: Progress, p. 165 ISBN 5-01-001045-3
  3. Nikolai Tupikov (1903). Dictionary of Old Russian Given Names. — St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov's Printing House, pp. 305, 694
  4. Stepan Vesyolovsky (1974). Onomasticon. Old Russian Names, Nicknames and Surnames. — Moscow: Nauka, p. 246
  5. Plaksin coat of arms by All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Part 13, January 19, 1885 (in Russian)
  6. Armorial of Little Russia (1914), p. 134
  7. Plaksin Ivan Semyonovich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
  8. Valentina Plaksina at the International Rowing Federation website
  9. Plaksin Vasily Timofeevich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
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