Afanassi
Afanassi is a male given name.
Origin and meaning
It is the Russian variant of the name Athanasios , which means the immortal .
Name bearer
First names
Well-known namesake are:
- Afanassi Pawlantjewitsch Beloborodow (1903–1990), Soviet general
- Afanassi Iwanowitsch Bulgakow (1859–1907), theologian and church historian
- Afanassi Afanassjewitsch Fet (1820-1892), Russian poet
- Afanassi Nikitin († 1472), Russian merchant and explorer
- Afanassi Semjonowitsch Rogowitsch (1812–1878), botanist and paleontologist
- Afanassi Prokofjewitsch Shchapov (1830–1876), Russian historian
Literary characters
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Karamazov Brothers , a character is named Afanassi.
Surnames
From the first name Afanassi comes the Russian patronymic family name Afanassjew, as it was carried by the Russian folklorist Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew .