[ANSTHRLD] Tumanova

[Tim McDaniel]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Cahira <cahira_of_bonwicke at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How good is "The Compleat Russian Name Book" compiled
> and translated by Vikontessa Tatiana Nikolaevna
> Tumanova as a Russian Name Source?
>
> I have a copy in the Asterisk files, and I want to
> know if it is fairly reliable or not.

It used to be the standard source.  Paul Wickenden of Thanet's (now in
its third edition) has supplanted it.  As I recall, Tumanova has dates
and period spellings, so it should still be good to use.  Mari?

Daniel de Lincolia
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