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Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey
he is certainly of royal blood.
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This name has appeared recently, somewhere in the middle of the 19th century. All Putins originally came from the clan of Putins from the Tver region. Illegitimate offsprings of noble families were often given cut names. For example, Russian writer Pnin was an illegitimate son of Field Marshal Repnin. There were lots of other occasions like that – Betskoy instead of Trubetskoy, Gribov instead of Griboyedov. The new names of unofficial clan branches were formed by means of deduction: a syllable was simply taken out of it.
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I had wondered about that often because there are other similar names and there's the explanation!
Putin could simply be a contraction from
Rasputin who well known scion Grigori was active at the right time.