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 .