Plaksin (male) and Plaksina (female) (Russian: Плаксин, Плаксина) are Russian surnames. They derived from the non-calendar given name Plaksa (translates as "crybaby, weeper"[1]) that belonged to the apotropaic group of names that were supposed to turn away harm or misfortune from a child.[2] 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.[3][4] A well-known noble house (see The Plaksins) was founded in 1782 (242 years ago) (1782) by Trofim Lukyanovich Plaksin of the Cossack Hetmanate who was granted Russian nobility for his service.[5][6]

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  1. ^ Plakat'/Плакать word meaning from the Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary (in Russian)
  2. ^ Boris Unbegaun (1972, 1989). Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press; Moscow: Progress, p. 165 ISBN 5-01-001045-3
  3. ^ Nikolai Tupikov (1903). Dictionary of Old Russian Given Names. — St. Petersburg: I. N. Skorokhodov's Printing House, pp. 305, 694
  4. ^ Stepan Vesyolovsky (1974). Onomasticon. Old Russian Names, Nicknames and Surnames. — Moscow: Nauka, p. 246
  5. ^ Plaksin coat of arms by All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. Part 13, January 19, 1885 (in Russian)
  6. ^ Armorial of Little Russia (1914), p. 134
  7. ^ Plaksin Ivan Semyonovich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
  8. ^ Valentina Plaksina at the International Rowing Federation website
  9. ^ Plaksin Vasily Timofeevich article from the Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)