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.

References

1. Behind the Name: Yermolai, Behind the Name: Hermolaos
2. A History of Russian economic thought
3. Russian Bibliographies
5. National Library of Australia Catalogue