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What does the surname Golubev Dove, pigeon, dove mean - the name of the same bird, and the surname is formed from a nickname or a secular name. (E) Surname Golubov. May be associated with color. Dahl's Dovecote is a fan of keeping pigeons and at the same time a dovecote hawk. See also Golubin. Surnames are in 'Onomasticon' Veselovsky Blue pr. Fedor Aleksandrovich Kasatkin - Rostov, 1500 g. Dove Boris Vasilyevich Pozharsky, XVI century .; Grigory Golubok, a peasant, 1630, Kurmysh Dove, Golubev, in the XV — XVII centuries. many people and several surnames in Novgorod Golubyatnikov Matvey Mikhailov, a Posad man, 1623, Gorokhovets Golubinsky, Golubovsky, Golubitsky may have a geographical basis.

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The history of the origin of the surname Golubev Not many of us think about the origin of our surname. Remembering from childhood, we repeat it as something once and for all given and very significant. Oddly enough, this sounds, but until the end of the XVIII - the middle of the XIX century, the surname remained the privilege of only aristocrats. Most of the names were not officially recognized, therefore, in addition to the names, our ancestors had only middle names and nicknames. The etymology of the surname Golubev, which belongs to the common type of Russian surnames, goes back to personal nickname. From time immemorial, the ancient Slavs attached to the name given to a person at baptism, a variety of nicknames that were given not only to parents, but also to neighbors or even an individual to himself. The fact is that there were relatively few church names, and they were often repeated, thereby creating difficulties in communication between people. Nicknames helped solve the problem of identification of a person, since their supply was unlimited. Nicknames became: indications of a person's character or appearance, naming according to nationality or place of residence (birth). It often happened that baptismal names were completely supplanted by nicknames both in everyday life and in official documents. The surname Golubev belongs to the group of so-called 'bird' surnames and goes back to the name of the bird 'pigeon'. Most likely, this word formed the basis of the nickname Pigeon, which was received by a person who was engaged in breeding pigeons, or in some way resembled this bird. From the earliest times Golub was considered a symbol of spiritual purity and chastity. Because of devotion to posterity, he personified maternal feelings. Sometimes interpreted as a sign of wisdom. In medieval Christian art, he was an indispensable symbol in the depiction of the Annunciation, Baptism, the Descent of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity. It was widely believed that the devil and witches were able to take the form of any creature except a dove and a sheep. Prior to the introduction of Christianity in Russia, the designation of a child with a name representing the name of an animal or plant was a very common tradition. This corresponded to the pagan ideas of man about the world. Old Russian man, living according to the laws of nature, himself represented himself as part of nature.

Giving the baby a name like the Pigeon, the parents wanted nature to perceive the child as their own, so that the useful qualities transferred to it by the chosen representative of the animal or plant world would pass on to him. As a result, the descendant of a man with the nickname Pigeon eventually got the name Golubev.