Tatiana

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Tatiana
Pronunciation /təˈtjɑːnə/ tə-TYAHN-ə
Gender Female
Origin
Word/Name Roman
Meaning Roman clan name "Tatius"
Other names
Related names Tanya
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Tatiana (Russian: Татьяна; also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatianna, Tatijana, etc.) is a Slavic female name. The short form of the name is Tanya (Russian: Таня).

Origin

Tatiana is a female name of Sabine and Latin origin, a feminine diminutive of the Sabine-Latin name Tatius. Titus Tatius was the name of a king of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome, presumably from the 8th to the 1st century BC. Because the Romans met with the Sabines, Tatius remained in use in Ancient Rome and during the first centuries of Christianity, as well as its diminutive Tatianus and the feminine Tatiana.

The name then disappeared in Western Europe, but remained in the Hellenic world, and later in the Orthodox world, including Russia. It honors Orthodox Saint Tatiana who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Alexander Severus c. 230 in Rome. Saint Tatiana is also considered a patron saint of students. Hence, Tatiana Day is now an official school holiday for students in Russia.

Tatiana in fiction, impact of literature

Tatiana Larina is the heroine of Alexander Pushkin's celebrated novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin. The poem was and continues to be extremely popular in Russia.

The character of Tatiana Larina inspired the names of two Romanovs: Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia and her distant cousin Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

In Marguerite Duras's novel Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (The Ravishing of Lol Stein), Tatiana Karl is the heroine's childhood friend who plays a central role in Lol's later traumatic experience.

Notable people

In Christianity

  • Saint Tatiana, 3rd-century Christian martyr

In modeling

In television and films

In sports

In music

Nobility

  • Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890 - 1979), daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia.
  • Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (June 10, 1897 - July 17, 1918), was a daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who abdicated the throne amidst the Russian revolution. Tatiana was eventually assassinated with her family.
  • Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (born 1939), daughter of Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark.

In literature and fiction

  • Tatyana Tolstaya, modern Russian writer, granddaughter of Aleksei Tolstoy
  • Tatiana Larina, the love interest in Alexander Pushkin's celebrated novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin
  • Tatiana Romanova, James Bond's love interest in the 1963 movie From Russia with Love'
  • Tatiana Taylor, character in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  • Tatiana Wisla, character in the anime series Last Exile
  • Tatiana de Rosnay, an author of the fiction "Sarah's Key"

Variations of the name

  • Czech: Taťána
  • Dutch: Tatjana
  • English: Tatiana. Diminutive: Tanya, Tania, Tatty, Tattie, Tattey, Tatti, Tati, Tattee.
  • French: Tatiana, Tatianna, Tatyanna, Tatienne (uncommon). Diminutive: Tania, Tanya.
  • German: Tatjana
  • Greek: Τατιανή (Tatiani), Τατιάνα (Tatiana)
  • Hungarian: Tatjána
  • Italian: Tatiana
  • Japanese: タチアナ
  • Norwegian: Tatjana
  • Polish: Tacjana
  • Romanian: Tatiana, Tatianna. Diminutive: Tania
  • Russian: Татьяна (Tatijana). Diminutive: Таня (Tania), Tanichka, Tanechka, Tatianka, Taniusha, Taniushka.
  • Serbian: Тaтjaна
  • Slovakian: Tatiana. Diminutive: Táňa
  • Slovene: Tatjana. Diminutive: Tanja. Variants: Tatiana, Tatijana, Tatja, Tatjanca, Tia, Tiana, Tija, Tijana, Tjaša
  • Ukrainian: Тетяна (Tetiana, Tetyana). Diminutive: Tetianka, Tetyanka
  • Belarusian:Таццяна (Tatsiana)

See also

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