Yermolay

Yermolay () is a Russian masuline given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.

Yermolay is derived from the Greek Ermolaos (), meaning "the people of Hermes".

It is the basis of patronymic surnames Yarmolenko, Yermolayev, Yermolenko, Yermolin, Yermolkin, Yermolov, Yermolyev, Yermoshin.

Notable people

People with the given name Yermolay include:

• , 16th-century Russian churchman and writer
• Yermolay Gamper, 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars
• (1773–1841) Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars

Fictional characters

• 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.

See also

• Hermolaus
• Ermolao
• Ermolaos

References