IVAN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Russian, Czech, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
Other Scripts: Иван (Russian, Bulgarian), Іван (Ukrainian)
Pronounced: ee-VAHN (Russian), IE-van (English) [key]
Russian, Czech, Croatian, Slovene and Bulgarian form of JOHN. This was the name of several rulers of Moscow, including Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible, the first czar of Russia. Other notable bearers include Ivan Turgenev, a Russian author who wrote 'Fathers and Sons', and Ivan Pavlov, a scientist and physiologist best known for his discovery of the conditioned reflex.
Hm, zanimljivo da se ne pojavljuje Srpski, Slovački gde je ovo ime takođe puno zastupljeno...
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