Vsevolod or Wsewolod ( ; ) is a
Slavic male first name. Its
etymology
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is from
Slavic roots 'vse' (all) and 'volodeti' (to rule) and means 'lord-of-everything/everybody', (similar to another princely name, "
Vladimir" or "
Volodymyr"). It is equivalent to the Belarusian ''Usievalad'', Polish ''Wszewład'', Lithuanian ''Visvaldas'', Latvian ''
Visvaldis'' and German ''Wissewald''. The corresponding Russian
patronymic
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Patronymics are used, b ...
is Vsevolodovich.
Vsevolod may refer to:
Medieval princes
* (c. 983–1013), Prince of Volyn', son of
Vladimir I of Kiev
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Vsevolod I of Kiev (Yaroslavich) (1030–1093), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus'
*
Vsevolod Mstislavich (disambiguation)
*
Vsevolod II of Kiev (Olegovich) (d. 1146), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus'
*
Vsevolod III Yuryevich aka
Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154–1212), Prince of Vladimir
*
Vsevolod IV of Kiev (Svyatoslavich the Red) (d. 1215), twice Grand Prince of Kievan Rus' and Prince of Chernigov
*
Visvaldis of Gerzike (died 1239), prince of
Gerzike, later vassal of the
Bishop of Riga
Other persons
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Vsevolod Luknitsky (1844–1917), Russian general-lieutenant
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Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895), Russian playwright and nationalist
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Vsevolod Miller (1848–1913), Russian anthropologist and linguist
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Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903), Russian historical novelist
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Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940), Russian and Soviet theater director
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Vsevolod Holubovych (1885-1939), Ukrainian politician and prime minister of the
Ukrainian People’s Republic
*
Vsevolod Abramovich, (1890–1913), Russian aviator
*
Vsevolod Balitsky (1892–1937), Far Eastern and Ukrainian
NKVD
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chief.
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Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951), Soviet dramatist and prose writer
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Vsevolod Starosselsky (1875–1935), Russian military officer
*
Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888), Russian author of short stories
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Vsevolod Sharonov (1901–1964), Russian and Soviet astronomer
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Vsevolod Aksyonov (1902–1960), Soviet film actor
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Vsevolod Rauzer (1908–1941), Soviet chess champion
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Vsevolod Tarasevich (1919–1998), Soviet photographer
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Vsevolod Blinkov (1918–1987), Soviet football player
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Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893–1953), Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor
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Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963), Soviet novelist known for his stories set in the Russian Civil War
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Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979), Soviet athlete
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Vsevolod Safonov (1923–1992), Soviet film actor
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Vsevolod Murakhovsky (1926–2017), Soviet politician
*
Vsevolod Nestayko (1930–2014), Ukrainian children's writer
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Vsevolod Shilovsky (born 1938), Soviet and Russian film actor
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Vsevolod Kukushkin (born 1942), Soviet Russian journalist, writer and ice hockey administrator
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Vsevolod Gakkel' (born 1953), Russian rock musician
Other uses
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''Vsevolod'' (1769; 74 guns) – Baltic Navy ship of the line burnt 1779
*
''Vsevolod'' (1796; 74 guns) – Baltic Navy ship of the line destroyed in the action near
Baltiyskiy Port during the
Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
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''Vsevolod'' (1809; 66 guns) – Baltic Navy ship of the line hulked 1820
See also
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic peoples, Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-base names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', ''Niemir, Němir/měr''), * ...
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Russian masculine given names
Ukrainian masculine given names
Slavic masculine given names
Masculine given names