The name Sophia has now become one of the most popular baby names around the globe. You can find it amongst the top favourites in Europe, the Americas and even Asia. It is widely used by people from all cultures...
Author: Fyodor Lavrentyev, MA
The Finns of the Steppe and Their Mordvin Names
There was a recent news article that Gérard Depardieu, the French actor most known to people from the 60’s onward has decided to renounce his EU citizenship and move to Russia. As Russia is quite fond of what they call...
The Old Buddhists of Europe
There is a place at the edge of Europe, by the Caspian Sea and just before the Ural Mountains where you can find the only Buddhist people with roots in this old continent. The Kalmyk people They are the Kalmyks...
Cyrillic and its Long Journey East
Over time, humankind has tried to transform oral speech into written texts and has developed many writing forms along the way. From the old cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese ideograms, Semitic consonants and Latin letters, we have tried it all,...
Find Your Yakut Spirit Name
Have you ever wondered what mysteries lie hidden in the frozen realms of distant Siberia? What dreams are there to be dreamt, lost on the open steppe? We begin a journey that will take us along the Silk Road, over...
Calling Alexander
Alexander is a world famous name ever since a certain Greek Alexander the Great conquered half of the then-known world and became infamous. Nowadays, there are many Alexanders, if not all great, as well as many Alex’s, Alexey’s and even...
