Bakunin (surname)

Bakunin (Template:Langx; masculine) or Bakunina (Template:Lang; feminine) is a Russian last name.<ref name="Ganzhina">Ganzhina, p. 9</ref>

There are two theories regarding the origins of this last name.<ref name="Ganzhina" /> According to the first one, it is a variety of the last name Abakumov, which is derived from a patronymic, itself derived from various forms of the Christian male first name Avvakum.<ref name="Ganzhina" /> However, it is also possible that this last name is related to the last name Bakulin, both of which derive from dialectal Russian words "Template:Lang" (bakunya) and "Template:Lang" (bakulya), meaning, depending on the dialect, chatterbox, talkative person or agile, business-like person.<ref name="Ganzhina" />

People with this last name

• Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist
  • Bakunin (biography), a 1937 biography of the anarchist by E. H. Carr
• Alessandrina Bakunin, first wife of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto
• Alexey Bakunin (b. 1970), retired Russian association football player
• Fyodor Bakunin (1898Template:Endash1984), Soviet general
• Kesha Bakunin, an author of dystopian fiction
• Maria Bakunin (1873–1960), Russian-born Italian chemist and biologist
• Tatyana Aleksandrovna Bakunina (1815–1871)
• Tatyana Alekseevna Bakunina (1904–1995)
• Yekaterina Bakunina, a subject of three paintings by Alexander Brullov, Russian Neoclassical artist
• Yelizaveta Bakunina and her son Pyotr, ancestors of Prince George Alexandrovich Yuryevsky, Russian noble
• Bakunin family

Fictional characters

• Herbert Bakunin, a character in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Mikhail Bakunin, a character in the American TV series Lost

See also

• Bakunino, several rural localities in Russia

References

Sources

• И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Москва, 2001. Template:ISBN