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Pnin is a Russian surname produced by truncation of the surname Repnin. [1]

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ivan Pnin (1773–1805), Russian poet and political writer
  • Pyotr Pnin [ ru] (1803-1837), Russian painter

Fictional characters

  • Timofey Pnin, protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Emir Pnin, a role played by Hilmi Sözer in Die Verwegene – Kämpfe um deinen Traum

References

  1. ^ Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames, — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; Russian version: Русские фамилии, 1989, Chapter IX: "Artificial surnames"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pnin is a Russian surname produced by truncation of the surname Repnin. [1]

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ivan Pnin (1773–1805), Russian poet and political writer
  • Pyotr Pnin [ ru] (1803-1837), Russian painter

Fictional characters

  • Timofey Pnin, protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Emir Pnin, a role played by Hilmi Sözer in Die Verwegene – Kämpfe um deinen Traum

References

  1. ^ Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames, — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; Russian version: Русские фамилии, 1989, Chapter IX: "Artificial surnames"

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