Preobrazhensky (surname)
Preobrazhensky (Russian: Преображенский) feminine: Preobrazhenskaya is a Russian surname originated in clergy, derived from the term Преображение, 'Transfiguration (of Jesus)'.[1] Notable persons with the surname include:
- Boris Preobrazhensky, Soviet otolaryngologist and academician, Hero of Socialist Labour
- Konstantin Preobrazhensky, writer on KGB subjects
- Mikhail Preobrazhensky, architect
- Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet
- Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director) (1881–1971), Russian and Soviet actress and film director
- Pavel Preobrazhensky, Russian geologist
- Sofiya Preobrazhenskaya, Russian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR
- Vasily Khrisanfovich Preobrazhensky, Russian writer
- Vasily Petrovich Preobrazhensky, Russian writer
- Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, (1886–1937) Bolshevik and economist
Fictional characters
- Professor Preobrazhensky, surgeon, from the novel Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
See also
- All pages with titles containing Preobrazhensky
- All pages with titles containing Preobrazhenskaya
References
- ^ Unbegaun, Boris (1989) [1972]. Русские фамилии [Russian Surnames] (in Russian). Vol. FIRST. Translated by Luybov Kurkina, V. Neroznak, Ye. Skvairs [in Russian] (1st in Russian ed.). Moscow: Progress Publishers. p. 172. ISBN 5-01-001045-3.
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