Myshkin (surname)
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Myshkin (Мы́шкин) is a Russian name, also transliterated Mishkin and commonly Miskin, although the latter two words have other meanings, both in Russian and in other languages. The ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem in Hebrew is believed to be the root of the name with the Hebrew word pronounced "mishkan". There are people with the surname Miskin around the world who have formed a large user group on Facebook. There are Miskins in Australia, England, India, Indonesia, Canada and the United States including Mormons in Utah. "Myshkin" is the possessive case of the diminutive of the word 'mouse'.
Notable people with this surname
- Anatoly Myshkin (b. 1954), a retired Soviet and Russian basketball player.
- Vladimir Myshkin (b. 1955), an ice hockey player on the Soviet Union's national team.
Fictional characters
- Prince Myshkin, a character in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.
See also
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