Yermolay
Yermolay (Russian: Ермолай) is a Russian masculine given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.
Yermolay is derived from the Greek Ἑρμόλαος (Hermolaos), meaning "the people of Hermes".[1]
Diminutives of the name include Yermolayka (Ермолайка); Yermola (Ермола); Yerma (Ерма); Yermokha (Ермоха); Yermosha (Ермоша).[2] It is the basis of patronymic surnames Yarmolenko, Yermolayev, Yermolenko, Yermolin, Yermolkin, Yermolov, Yermolyev, Yermoshin.
Notable people
[edit]People with the given name Yermolay include:
- Ermolai-Erazm, 16th-century Russian churchman and writer
- Yermolay Gamper, 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars
- Yermolay Kern (1773–1841) Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Fictional characters
[edit]- 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.