Plaksin (male) and Plaksina (female) (Russian: Плаксин, Плаксина) are Russian surnames. They derived from the non-calendar given name Plaksa (translates as "crybaby, weeper"Plakat'/Плакать word meaning from the Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary (in Russian)) that belonged to the apotropaic group of names that were supposed to turn away harm or misfortune from a child.Boris Unbegaun (1972, 1989). Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press; Moscow: Progress, p. 165 First mentions of Plaksa and Plaksin surnames date back to the first half of the 16th century and include both peasants and boyars of Veliky Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas.Nikolai Tupikov (1903). Dictionary of Old Russian Given Names. — St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov's Printing House, pp. 305, 694Stepan Vesyolovsky (1974). Onomasticon. Old Russian Names, Nicknames and Surnames. — Moscow: Nauka, p. 246 A well-known noble house (see The Plaksins) was founded in by Trofim Lukyanovich Plaksin of the Cossack Hetmanate who was granted Russian nobility for his service.Plaksin coat of arms by All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Part 13, January 19, 1885 (in Russian)Armorial of Little Russia (1914), p. 134
Notable people Gleb Plaksin (1925—2008), French-born Soviet and Russian film actor Ivan Plaksin (1803—1877), Russian lieutenant-general, grandson of Trofim PlaksinPlaksin Ivan Semyonovich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian) Suzie Plakson (born Susan Plaksin 1958), American actress, singer, writer, poet, and artist Valentina Plaksina (born 1996), Russian rowerValentina Plaksina at the International Rowing Federation website Vasily Plaksin (1795—1869), Russian writer, literary historian and educatorPlaksin Vasily Timofeevich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
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