pushkin's nanny

Wed Sep 15 03:26:37 UTC 2004

Arina Rodionovna is sometimes referred to as Anna Rodionovna (I've run across it in a couple of essays and brief bios of Pushkin).  Wondering if Anna can be a short form of Arina, or vice versa, or if this is simply a wrong substitution that somehow got currency in English.
Thanks in advance,
Cole Crittenden.

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