Yermolay
Yermolay is a Russian given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.Derivation
Yermolay is derived from the Greek Hermolaos, meaning "the people of Hermes".
It is the basis of the surnames Yermolayev and Yermoshin.Notable Yermolays
People with the given name Yermolay include:
- Ermolai-Erazm, 16th-century Russian churchman
- Yermolay Yermolayevich Hamper, 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars
- Yermolay Dementievich Kamezhenkov, 1760–1818, Russian artist
- Yermolay Fyodorovich Kern, 1773–1841, Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
- Yermolai Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn, born 1970, son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translator/annotator of his works
- 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.
