Bakunin

Bakunin (Russian: Баку́нин; masculine) or Bakunina (Баку́нина; feminine) is a Russian last name.^[1]

There are two theories regarding the origins of this last name.^[1] According to the first one, it is a variety of the last name Abakumov, which is derived from a patronymic, itself derived from various forms of the Christian male first name Avvakum.^[1] However, it is also possible that this last name is related to the last name Bakulin, both of which derive from dialectal Russian words "бакуня" (bakunya) and "бакуля" (bakulya), meaning, depending on the dialect, chatterbox, talkative person or agile, business-like person.^[1]

People with this last name

• Alessandrina Bakunin, first wife of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto
• Alexey Bakunin (b. 1970), retired Russian association football player
• Maria Bakunin (1873–1960), Russian-born Italian chemist and biologist
• Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876), Russian revolutionary anarchist
• Yekaterina Bakunina, a subject of three paintings by Alexander Brullov, Russian Neoclassical artist
• Yelizaveta Bakunina and her son Pyotr, ancestors of Prince George Alexandrovich Yuryevsky, Russian noble

Fictional characters

• Herbert Bakunin, a character in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Mikhail Bakunin, a character in the American TV series Lost

See also

• Bakunino, several rural localities in Russia

References

Notes

Sources

• И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Москва, 2001. ISBN 5-237-04101-9